Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 90 17:33:49 GMT References: <26A738A8.725B@tct.uucp> <26B059CA.57CF@tct.uucp> <3270.26b4665b@mccall.com> <3275.26b54aab@mccall.com> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 25 There are an absurdly large number of sites that use the news reply path, and for me to bang on each one of them would be a waste of my time. Much easier is it to just reroute their mail. Actually, I lied. In that particular case, I would have routed to uunet.uu.net, because I do neighbor checking, and uunet doesn't register a neighbor named maverick.ksu.ksu.edu. So even if there are ghost sites in the maps, it would take a particularly weird UUCP setup to throw me off (even with your unregistered domain). To have a domain and not register it would be silly. It happens all the time, but it never lasts long; it's simply too easy to Do The Right Thing(tm) and get it registered. There are several issues that rabid rerouters have to take into account, and one of them is that ghost sites exist. Another is that the pathalias databases must be consistant accross the network. A potential for failure could be rutgers using new maps but not distributing them. Another would be rutgers distributing them, and a rabid rerouter not not using them. This has not happened, to the best of my knowledge. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]