Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!wendyt
From: wendyt@pyrps5 (Wendy Thrash)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Path files
Message-ID: <13506@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 21 Jan 88 01:33:25 GMT
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Reply-To: wendyt@pyrps5.UUCP (Wendy Thrash)
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Keywords: "Best" vs. "Fastest"

In article <923@uop.edu> robert@uop.edu (Fred Flintstone) writes:
>So, I thought I would see what path was in our entry for that site.
>Unfortunately, it blows through uunet from lll-winken, and guess what?
>Yep, I got into some trouble due to fees for the link from uunet to
>the So.Cal. machine that hooks up to my friend.

I've always believed that the costs we put in our map entries
should reflect not only the frequency and speed of the link, but
also our willingness to forward mail over it.  Any site that
advertises a DIRECT link to another site shouldn't be surprised
when mail starts flowing over it.  At unisoft I routinely
adjusted map entries so we wouldn't suddenly become California's
gateway to Japan or England.  I used a slightly different version
of our map entry locally, so we wouldn't send mail for our
distributors through some roundabout path.  The use of two different
versions of one's map file is inelegant, but effective.

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Wendy Thrash, now ...!pyramid!wendyt