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From: mechjgh@tness7.UUCP (Greg Hackney )
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting of explicit paths
Message-ID: <11@tness7.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 06:27:48 GMT
References: <327@vsi1.UUCP> <9@tness7.UUCP> <3544@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: mechjgh@tness7.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
Organization: SWBT Co.
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In article <3544@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> ambar@athena.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
>You're confused about what "rerouting" is.

Aw, give me a break, Jean Marie. It was meant to be humorous in a weird
sort of way...

About rerouting....

One of our Vaxen is serving as a netnews feed to several
sites. It handles a lot of email replies to netnews articles,
most of which have very very long bang style return addresses.

The path that netnews takes, is hardly ever the shortest
path that pathalias would come up with. I've seen it routed
all over North America just to get to the machine next door.

If most of the sites did rerouting, a lot of time and money
would be saved in my opinion. 

--
Greg Hackney
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Texas Network Engineering Support Systems
root@tness1.UUCP