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From: mcm@ncsu.UUCP
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Subject: mail routers
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Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 17:35:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  3 17:35:09 1983
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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