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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: internetwork addressing questions
Message-ID: <357@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 00:17:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 13 00:17:00 1984
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Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles
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All bets are pretty much off when you try to gateway through more
than one net, since the precedence rules are pretty much ad hoc
and get confusing quickly beyond one gateway.  However, experience has
shown that in many cases the UUCP route [it's UUCP routing, not
Usenet (the latter refers to netnews distribution paths] can be the
most reliable for some purposes.  For example, one mailing list
that I'm currently on, via a site that supports both UUCP and CSNET,
recently had to turn off all of the paths leading to and from the list
via CSNET and instead use UUCP routing exclusively.  Why?  The CSNET software
kept failing with the mailing list, causing all sorts of 
problems, while the UUCP code seems to be churning along just fine.
They're still trying to figure out the problem.

The moral: If you know a path that seems to work, don't spend too 
much time trying to find other ones.

--Lauren--