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