From: utzoo!decvax!cca!dee Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: people who need mail paths Article-I.D.: cca.4440 Posted: Tue Mar 15 08:21:53 1983 Received: Fri Mar 18 20:10:39 1983 References: eagle.829 Well, if everyone set up a direct path to everyone they ever sent some mail to, the result would be unmaintainable. And the number of nodes is growing. Maybe someone should set up a node that you could subscribe to that would be totally supported by charging fees for forwarding mail. That would potentially reduce all mail to two hops. Or something more like the Arpanet routing should be implemented with reasonable connectivity to cut things down to a "few" hops. Donald Eastlake