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From: reid@decwrl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.sa
Subject: all-time worst path?
Message-ID: <3148@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Wed, 21-May-86 23:28:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 23:28:39 1986
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Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
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I just installed pathalias here and ran it over the newly-posted map data. I
used a version that I've been running at Stanford for several months, and it
seemed in the past to work fine. I asked for a path to "sdcrdcf", even though
I know that the path hplabs!sdcrdcf!%s works just fine. Here is what it came
up with. This, without a doubt, has to be the worst mail routing I have ever
seen. It's debugging time.

greipa!texsun!oz!munnari!prlb2!ukc!warwick!cvaxa!csunb!csun!sdcrdcf!%s

Notes: 
decwrl	is near San Francisco 
greipa	was near San Francisco (it's been dead for months, though)
texsun	is in Texas.
oz	is in Washington
munnari	is in Australia
prlb2	is in Belgium
ukc	is in England
warwick	is in England
cvaxa	is in England
csunb	is near Los Angeles
sdcrdcf	is near Los Angeles

I'm sorely tempted to send a message over this path to see if it works, but
I'm sure it won't because the "oz<-->munnari" link is a fiction: oz is the
domain name for Australia.