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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Will it ever work?
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 12:00:38 EDT
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> There is one more wrench in the works: the pseudo-smart machine.  This
> is a machine that does route optimization in an obsolete fashion.  It may
> be that there is NO way to hand such a machine a suggested route, and
> know that it's going to do it correctly.  I doubt there's a complete
> technological solution to this, but it may be possible to get most such
> machines to do the right thing by giving them an abbreviated route,
> something they can't easily foul up, and having a way to pass the real
> route through (transparently to the pseudo-smart machine) to an enlightened
> machine on the other side.

If we could get rid of the pseudo-smart machines then routing would
probably work. At least any time a rout has failed from here it's been
because a pseudo-smart machine has gottent its hand on it.

Also, under your scheme, how do you send a message from dumb machines?