Path: utzoo!utgpu!tmsoft!mason
From: mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: To those who are asking me to (re-)post UNaXcess...
Message-ID: <268@tmsoft.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 15:28:09 GMT
References: <7072@ncoast.UUCP> <12948@necntc.NEC.COM> <7088@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Followup-To: news.sysadmin
Organization: TM Software Associates, Toronto
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In article <7088@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP writes:
>...
>Please note that the necntc link is NOT intended for high volume mail!  The
>link will be severed if the mail volume gets too large -- which it has in the
>case of some mailing lists.
>...
>
>To summarize:  Please do NOT use smail/pathalias routing data to send to
>ncoast via a mailing list!  The proper link for high volume mail is the path
>
>			cbosgd!mandrill!hal!ncoast

Well then, change the PUBLISHED map information to show
necntc<-->ncoast as expensive, and no one (or at least no smart mailer)
WILL use it.  Your private (Path.local) can show the real info for low
traffic transfers.  It is unreasonable to expect people to hard code
paths when the map gets as large as it is now, and changes from week
to week.  Fudge the data to get the results you want :-).

In our local area this is quite a popular game.  Site x notices a lot
of traffic going over a fast long distance link, so changes the map
entry.... lo and behold, next week all the traffic has switched to
site y, so they change their map entry.... great fun :-)
	../Dave