Xref: utzoo news.config:1373 news.admin:6814 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!laidbak!obdient!simon!royko!ditka!kls From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) Newsgroups: news.config,news.admin Subject: Re: Warp speed Mr. Scott! Message-ID: <4123@ditka.UUCP> Date: 10 Sep 89 06:59:19 GMT References: <1989Aug21.124002.11054@robohack.uucp> <1059@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> <3872@ditka.UUCP> <6093@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) Organization: Inaction Central, Los Alamos, New Mexico Lines: 29 In article <6093@ficc.uu.net> karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >One thing about uunet trying to list all of its uucp neighbors with the same >value ... if the link is substantially >downgraded, you end up generating routes to uunet that are not direct from >your site to uunet. That makes perfect sense. It even makes *some* sense that the cost is fairly low, since folks with uunet connections probably want their mail to come that way instead of via backroads. The trouble is that it also affects paths to non-subscribers. I would certainly object if one of my neighbors had a uunet link, marked as DEMAND but only polled every night or so, and consequently caused a great deal of *my* mail to be delayed. The solution to this is simple: the default should be a term- inal link, e.g. uunet (DEMAND) The subscriber encourages mail via the uunet without causing any backup for neighbors for whom better paths really exist and who *want* those better paths to be used. -- Karl Swartz |UUCP {ames,lll-winken}!pacbell!ditka!kls 1-505/672-3113 |Internet kls@rt1.lanl.gov |BIX kswartz "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." (Twain)