Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve
From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: path to Gadgets
Message-ID: <A1734940362@thelake.mn.org>
Date: 10 Jun 91 17:59:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: thelake.A1734940362
References: <165@gbs.UUCP>
Organization: St. Croix Valley rhubarb and tomato patch
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X-UUCP-route: {rutgers,plains,decwrl}!umn-cs!thelake!steve

[In article <165@gbs.UUCP>,
     root@gbs.UUCP (Root) (really Dave Small) writes ... ]

> The path taken by this message is the path "back" to us here at
> Gadgets.

Just one quick word of advice before you use the Path: line, though.

Put your noggin into action and determine the *closest* site to gbs
that your system knows how to reach. Send mail there. Reasons:

-- Usenet news paths are rarely the quickest routes.
-- Not all systems named in Usenet paths handle mail. (Really!) Using
   the Path: line without careful thought is a good way to lose mail.
-- Sending email through systems you don't own is a privilege, and it's
   your responsibility to ensure that you don't impose on any more sites
   than is necessary. Be a good guest.

>From the 12-hop Path: line on the article I received, I would guess that
ncar.ucar.edu!boulder!tcr!gbs!root might be a working UUCP path, but
there probably is a faster one (anybody know the Internet equivalent of
boulder?)

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 Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / steve@thelake.mn.org