Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site encore.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!encore!lawrence From: lawrence@encore.UUCP (Scott Lawrence) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: Mail routing -- problems showing up Message-ID: <223@encore.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 18:43:23 EDT Article-I.D.: encore.223 Posted: Mon Aug 19 18:43:23 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Aug-85 06:41:50 EDT References: <3018@nsc.UUCP> <2875@topaz.ARPA> <4787@mit-eddie.UUCP> <16110@watmath.UUCP> <4941@mit-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: lawrence@encore.UUCP (Scott Lawrence) Distribution: net Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Wellesley Hills, MA Lines: 11 Summary: It seems to me that while geography makes a poor basis on which to base routing decisions, we have a better one. Most of the net is made up of organizations which have one or more systems, and more and more of those systems are installing internal networks which are far better than uucp. If we were to simply ask that each organization which does this establish just one machine as the gateway, and that gateway be configured to hide the very existance of the other machines on its own net, we would reduce the number of "global" machine names to a far more managable number than we have now. The net currently exists because various organizations are willing to foot the bill for phone calls - all this really does is formalize the situation which already exists to some degree or other.