Path: utzoo!mnetor!spectrix!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting of explicit paths
Message-ID: <410@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 88 21:46:54 GMT
References: <327@vsi1.UUCP> <9@tness7.UUCP> <3544@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <11@tness7.UUCP>
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <11@tness7.UUCP>, mechjgh@tness7.UUCP (Greg Hackney ) writes:
> 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. 

A lot more time and money would be saved if everybody used news
compiled with INTERNET defined. Let's deal with the problem at it's 
source instead of applying a fix afterward.  Unless we start generating 
pathalias made paths ourselves on the majority of what we send 
(i.e. replies to news articles) then we'll never convince
anybody to lay off the occassional explicit path. Even if you can't
run smail/pathalias yourself find yourself a site who will do it for
you and use the internet define in the mailpaths file. I'm sure any
site that is re-routing everything the see already won't care one way
or the other. 

-- 
Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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