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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.mail,net.news
Subject: Re: Fantastic Elastic Plastic USENET addresses
Message-ID: <2623@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Nov-83 12:48:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  3 12:48:50 1983
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Contrary to Erik Fair's statement, some sites do optimize news paths
that comes through them. Decvax is one. I believe uw-beaver may
be another. I first found out that decvax talks to utcsrgv
because mail directed via utzoo was called in directly to us from decvax.

I agree that everyone should use paths which are different from the
paths that news took to get to them. When you use 'r' in readnews,
you get a file whose first line you can edit to amend the header.
EVERYONE who is replying to articles should know how to get to
a few of the basic sites. If you check, you will probably find
that YOUR site talks to ihnp4, and perhaps allegra, decvax, linus,
decwrl, utcsrgv, ucbvax, floyd, utzoo, uw-beaver, or cornell. If not,
you're only a hop or two away. USE THE SHORT PATHS.
(Incidentally, all of the above sites except ucbvax talk to utcsrgv,
and ucbvax talks to the rest of them...)

Dave Sherman
(thanks all you nice backbone people)
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 {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave