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From: dmc@videovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Sending Email to People who post to the USENET
Message-ID: <4251@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: Sat, 28-Feb-87 00:00:55 EST
Article-I.D.: videovax.4251
Posted: Sat Feb 28 00:00:55 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 16:07:21 EST
References: <2131@ncoast.UUCP> <1354@hplabsc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmc@videovax.Tek.COM (Donald M. Craig)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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In <1354@hplabsc.UUCP> Dave Taylor `don't need no steen'k'ng pathalias file'.
And yes, there was a :-).   The idea of shortening up some of the horrendous
news `reply to' paths, when no other information is available, seems reasonable.

But if I am being wicked and specifying a delivery path that avoids, say
ihnp4, I don't want hplabs putting it back.   And if I am being good and
using domains, I should get decent path choosing.   It seems his major beef
is with the frequency of pathalias database updating.

The example he chose was `ncoast.UUCP'.  So I did a `pathto ncoast', and
out of the pathalias database popped `...!cbosgd!cwruecmp!ncoast'.
Which is two hosts shorter than the result obtained from shortening
the news reply path.  It seems Mr. Taylor's efforts would be better
placed by implementing automatic updating of his pathalias database.

-- 
Don Craig			dmc@videovax.Tek.COM
Tektronix Television Systems	... tektronix!videovax!dmc