From: utzoo!decvax!vortex!lauren Newsgroups: net.news Title: Internet mailer Article-I.D.: vortex.31 Posted: Wed Mar 2 14:18:35 1983 Received: Tue Mar 8 06:52:30 1983 I would strongly recommend *against* using Mark's map lists to generate mail path data. Mark's data generally only shows NETNEWS distribution paths, which usually does not represent reasonable/optimal mail paths in most cases. Some sites that pass along netnews do not accept/forward mail, and many sites are at the end of extremely long netnews delivery paths, but actually have very short possible delivery paths for mail. Until the distributed map data shows up-to-date listings in the "UUCP" field as well as in the "Usenet" field, the listings are really unsuitable for regular use as mail path generators. --Lauren--