Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!rit!tropix!moscom!ur-valhalla!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sunybcs!rutgers!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.ai.toronto.edu!lamy
From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: pathalias ignores fast Internet connections
Message-ID: <89Jun17.204724edt.11705@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 89 00:47:11 GMT
References: <1207@altos86.UUCP>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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In article <27059@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen) writes:
>		 I see lots and lots and lots of multiple Internet hops,
>trans-continental and international crossings as result of UUCP maps,
>which would mostly disappear except where appropriate with this addition.

Assuming that the internet is mostly homogeneous is premature; sometimes
there is considerable fudging of map entries so that traffic travels
only through internet sites that can compensate for each other's quirks.
For example, we keep two UUCP over TCP mail connections to Internet
sites because that way we can avoid fighting over religion about ! address
rewriting.

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4