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From: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: I hate smail
Message-ID: <274@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 08:51:53 EST
Article-I.D.: netxcom.274
Posted: Wed Jan 21 08:51:53 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 06:31:09 EST
References: <14227@amdcad.UUCP> <32@auspyr.UUCP> <4070@nsc.NSC.COM> <272@.altnet.UUCP> <4076@nsc.nsc.com>
Reply-To: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Organization: NetExpress Communications Inc. Vienna, Va.
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Summary: Suggested cost representations

In article <4076@nsc.nsc.com> tron@nsc.UUCP (Ronald S. Karr) writes:
>In article <272@.altnet.UUCP> edc@altnet.UUCP (Eric D. Christensen) writes:
> >
> > [...edited...suggestion of binary or'ed cost system, nicely done! ]
> >
>
>A useful starting point, though I would suggest adding a digit to each of these
>to allow a +/-HIGH and +/- LOW on the values.  However, experimentation with
>pathalias must be done to ensure that this does the correct thing.  Note that
>this means that it is better to go through 350 dedicated lines than to use
>one long haul line, though this may be a technicality.

Then I would suggest that you add something like a 'max-hops' value that would
limit this kind of insanity.  You'd have to be carefull though, you don't want
to keep people from mailing to some site that only has one path to it that
happens to be one hop longer than your limit!

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					Edwin Wiles
	seismo!sundc!netxcom!ewiles	Net Express, Inc.
					1953 Gallows Rd. Suite 300
					Vienna, VA 22180