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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Paths and Precedence (Re: Question about From: lines)
Message-ID: <1990Jul16.203728.501@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 16 Jul 90 20:37:28 GMT
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In article <[$6je2.vl6@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:

>Mangling Pathalias output to do the same is real easy via a simple sed script,
>which transforms
>	host: hop1!hop2!hop3!host!%s
>into
>	host: hop1!host!%s
>and which is left as an exercise to the reader.)

>This is based on the simple assumption that the next site along the path
>really should know better how to get to the destination than I do, since it's
>assumed to be closer to it.

Hmmm, it should be fun when 2 sites doing this each decide that the other
is the best next-hop toward the end point.  

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us