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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: foo   .bar.com(LOCAL) in pathalias.
Message-ID: <302@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 88 23:52:47 GMT
References: <163@jetson.UPMA.MD.US> <292@lakart.UUCP>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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In article <163@jetson.UPMA.MD.US>, john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens) sez:
> In article <292@lakart.UUCP>, I say:
>> Yet another (IMHO "elegant") solution is to take advantage of the fact that
>> pathalias utilises data IN THE ORDER IT FINDS IT with respect to multiple
> 
> Actually, pathalias uses the lowest cost it encounters as the cost of
> the link.  That's why you can't increase the cost of a link just by
> saying "foo bar(DEAD)", and why the "dead {foo!bar}" syntax was
> introduced.  .....
 
I STAND CORRECTED AND APOLOGIZE FOR ANY CONFUSION I HAVE CAUSED. I had
forgotten that all the stuff in our local u.LAKART file relates to reducing
path costs.

> Regardless, I agree that it is an elegant and good idea to have a
> local input file to pathalias that contains reduced costs that aren't
> published publically.

So at least I scored 1 out of 10 for trying :-(
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