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From: smk@linus.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: mail routers
Message-ID: <254@linus.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Aug-83 22:10:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  8 22:10:17 1983
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It's hard to improve a site.  To go from a->d, it may be quicker to
go from a->b->c->d if the polling frequency is much quicker.  However,
I would suggest an optimizer that simply redid a a->b->a->c to a->c
(i.e., eliminate loops).  Any other optimization, it was pointed out some
time ago, could cause looping if the DB on another site redid the
optimization another way.
-- 
	--steve kramer
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