Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: Date: 4 Aug 90 09:36:49 GMT References: <26A738A8.725B@tct.uucp> <26B70994.578B@intercon.com> <66101@sgi.sgi.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 One comment: Anything you put in a PATH line had better be globally unique. The usenet flooding algorithm depends on it. It looks like any article posted from apple.sgi.com will go unseen at apple.com. This is not to sanction rabid rerouting. The assumption that Path lines are the only source of hat you think is non-optimal routing is a poor one. Better to go ahead and stick a !somehere! in the path. That way when you see "somewhere!..." you know it's OK to reroute. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`