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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP path cost reduction
Message-ID: <16@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 2 Aug 90 19:06:40 GMT
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emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:

>This would argue that you should point your MX forwarder at alberta, if
>they are able to do the proper header magic to get them to you unscathed.
>(Better for the Canadian content laws too.)  In that way you will get
>mail the cheapest and best way possible.  

Yes, it does. At the time we registered our domain, "alberta" was not an
Internet site. The "closest" site we could find (at the time) who was
willing to be our forwarder was decwrl. (Believe me, I pounded on the
door of every Canadian Internet connected site that I could find.)

I hope that the U of Alberta would be willing to provide an MX forwarding
service for us. We haven't really discussed it yet. With the current
load on "alberta" I wouldn't blame them if they said no. That doesn't
change the fact that there are a lot of sites out there still who will
get poorer service if sites arbitrarily reroute mail. 

What kills me is that rabid rerouters assume they know all. One of the
main proponents on rabid rerouting also maintains the comp.mail.maps
database. Given the following two map entries, I would like to know
how rutgers plans to guarantee to do the "right thing" if I send mail
to rutgers!csb!postmaster ??? Or how does Elloit Lear's software
deal with this?

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