Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5e!hou5d!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!mcnc!ncsu!mcm From: mcm@ncsu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: mail routers Message-ID: <2267@ncsu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 17:35:09 EDT Article-I.D.: ncsu.2267 Posted: Wed Aug 3 17:35:09 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Aug-83 04:25:40 EDT Lines: 21 I also have mail routing programs, and I agree with Steve Bellovin. I originally wrote mkpath because I had an 11/60 and couldn't use Steve's pathalias program due to memory restrictions. His programs are the best to use if you can use them. The problem is with incorrect data. The data Mark Horton has seems to be everyone's L.sys info, rather than what sites they poll. That is why "-2" is an option on mkpath, instead of the default. To generate optimum paths, Mail routing programs need to know who you poll and how often. Often it is better to go through two sites that connect regularly than to go through one site that connects "once in a blue moon". If the connection list Mark Horton has contains sites that only connect once in a while, OF COURSE my mailer router will generate non-optimal paths. I've been thinking of changing mkpath so that it only takes the information from the "NEWS:" field. The "MAIL:" field for the most part is a joke. Mike Mitchell duke!mcnc!ncsu!mcm