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From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: routing TO a site without routing THROUGH it
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 03:15:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 03:15:10 1987
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> Yet another option is to use uumail instead of smail, which can
> look in your L.sys for UUCP neighbors before looking in the
> paths database.  I think smail could use this too, although it doesn't
> exist in version 2.3.  Those that use "uupath" to look at the routing
> then let "smail" do it will be in for a surprise sometime.

This is not necessarily a Good Thing... We have sites in our L.sys
that we don't want to call directly to feed mail. In our case, they
exist to allow us to transfer large files on a sporadic basis. As it
turns out, this same site spends most of it's time connected to
another site, therefore it is faster to use the indirect route
(in this case, cost is not an influencing factor).

I'm sure there are other sites in the same situation. If something
like this is to be added to smail, it should be made a configurable
option that can be disabled.