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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: How to tell smail about fast Internet paths?
Message-ID: <2004@spdcc.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 88 02:55:51 GMT
References: <12649@ncoast.UUCP> <9448@swan.ulowell.edu>
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In article <9448@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>You could tell pathalias (through your top.local or paths.local or
>whatever) that hal handles all mail for .edu, .com, .arpa, etc.
>The real answer is arpatxt, but you probably didn't want to know that.
>It requires more work to maintain.

I tried using arpatxt a few months ago along with the posted maps and
the resuling paths file was bizarre: about 50% of the mail I sent seemed
to be routed through XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Lincoln Labs).  Needless to say, I haven't
tried this again...

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