Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ncc!lyndon
From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: map feedback from failed mail
Message-ID: <10183@ncc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 17:09:45 GMT
References: <650@bms-at.UUCP>
Reply-To: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
Lines: 25
Keywords: auto feedback pathalias

In article <650@bms-at.UUCP> stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) writes:

>                                                            I list uunet as
>'dead' because I don't pay for it and I'm sure my net neighbors aren't
>anxious to pay for me.

I don't think this is correct. I have a connection with uunet specifically
because uunet is well connected and (usually) gets my mail here faster than
the other paths (via alberta or utzoo). Uunet lists us as <ncc>(DEMAND)
because I prefer my mail via uunet (all other things being equal), but
I don't want to forward UUCP mail that comes in via uunet (we
do forward internet mail from uunet). We list our uunet connection as
uunet(HOURLY), which says we *are* willing to forward other peoples mail
via uunet (HOURLY is a compromise value to keep us from relaying mail for
half of Canada and the northwestern US).

By listing uunet as DEAD, you are ignoring the explicit recomendations
of the system administrators who list mail connections in the maps.
If a site doesn't want to relay mail through a site, they don't (or
shouldn't) publish that link in the maps. (Case in point: we talk UUCP
mail to over 30 sites, however only eight or so are listed in our map
entry). "Hidden" sites can be maintained locally through the use of a
"local" file that you feed to pathalias along with [ud]*.

-- 
lyndon  {alberta,uunet}!ncc!lyndon  lyndon%ncc@uunet.uu.net