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From: ka@spanky.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: mail routers
Message-ID: <431@spanky.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Aug-83 15:03:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 10 15:03:07 1983
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Eliminating loops in mail addresses doesn't make much sense since I
suspect that the only time you see loops is when somebody put them
in specificly for testing purposes.

Spanky's data base lists a total of 985 paths.  Of these, 556 or 56%
are direct or include one intermediate system, so that no optimization
will help.  The longest paths include 5 intermediate systems; there
are only 3 paths of this length.
					Kenneth Almquist