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From: mouse@mcgill-vi
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Subject: Re: Re: Reading other peoples' mail
Message-ID: <420@mcgill-vi>
Date: Wed, 30-Apr-86 12:38:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 30 12:38:00 1986
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In article <3068@amdahl.UUCP>, gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) writes:
> On the one hand, you can use the -d flag of Peter Honeyman's pathalias(1)
> to declare as DEAD any site which you do not want your mail to go thru.
> That way that site will only be used when it is the only available choice.

     Exactly what I did with lll-crg (bandy's  machine).  Oooh, maybe  I
shouldn't have said that,  I can  see the bandygrams now....but he seems
to  be saying to the world "I'm  not interested enough in  carrying your
mail to be ethical about it", so, well, he's  not carrying ours.  On the
other  hand,  seems to me that  being a member of USEnet is a privilege,
not a right.  Hmmmm....

     Or, I suppose you could diddle the input files to declare all links
to a given machine (say, lll-crg) as  cost -1000000,  then every  letter
will get routed through lll-crg  (I would suppose, I haven't tried it!).
If many sites did this, I doubt bandy would be  ABLE to read every piece
of mail passing through his machine.  For that matter, would his MACHINE
be able to handle it??

     (:-), for those lacking in humor.
-- 
					der Mouse

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