Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mintaka!wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu!entropy From: entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu (maximum entropy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: path to Gadgets Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 91 19:51:00 GMT References: <165@gbs.UUCP> Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Organization: Not Proud Programmers Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: steve@thelake.mn.org's message of 10 Jun 91 17:59:18 GMT >From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) >[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. > [...] >>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?) It is probably boulder.colorado.edu, but I don't do uucp when I can avoid it, so I'm not sure that they are really the same host. Most people don't need to worry about all this because most sites have "smart" uucp routers, and root@gbs.UUCP should do the right thing. -- entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu entropy. . .it's not just a good idea, it's the second law. Boycott AT&T, Lotus, Apple, Ashton-Tate and Xerox. Join the League for Programming Freedom! Write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu for more information.