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From: krs@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: routing in the user agent
Message-ID: <15291@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 14:33:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 28 14:33:08 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 06:29:12 EDT
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Reply-To: krs@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kris Stephens)
Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA
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Summary: I'll provide one reason for users knowing routes

When I, as a user, know that mail is getting stuck on the "preferred"
path from here to there, and I know that another path is working
rapidly and well, *and* I have mail I feel is urgent, I want the
option of routing around the standard path.  The (in)famous problems
of ihnp4 being *the* way into most of AT&T and Bell Labs while they
were hard to reach and were constantly dropping mail on the floor is
a perfect example.  Here's another one:  Amdahl (we) took a power hit
a couple of weeks ago (the city had to replace the massive junction box
providing power to the building).  Were I a user on a nearby machine,
had I seen the posting from a neighboring site getting the word out,
and had I mail that I wanted to get through *now*, I'd want to be able
to hand-feed the path to route around the dead node.

So, make it so that I can ignore paths almost all the time, but leave
me recourse when *I* know more than pathalias does about what the
condition of the net is.

...Kris
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