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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
Message-ID: <a3ic35w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 22 May 91 11:28:33 GMT
References: <1D0a32w163w@phoenix.com>
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) writes:
> lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
> >                                  We can be sure that 'fozzie' does not
> > maintain its own routing tables, since it's a PC running Waffle.
> 
>    You cannot be sure of anything, Mr. Lyndon. You don't have all the
> facts. 

Being at a site running Waffle, I'd just like to point out that Waffle
systems are entirely capable of maintaining their own routeing tables.
They're not as nifty as pathalias or whatever, but they allow you to route
all mail to a particular site via some explicit path rather than the usual
smarthost-generated path.


mathew