Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!husc6!cmcl2!phri!bc-cis!pluto!warren From: warren@pluto.UUCP Newsgroups: news.config Subject: it's a long long way to New Jersey Message-ID: <410@pluto.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 03:50:41 EDT Article-I.D.: pluto.410 Posted: Sun Jul 19 03:50:41 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 09:16:53 EDT Distribution: usa Organization: Industrial Automation Systems - New York, NY Lines: 25 I just noticed a very long path that an article from New Jersey took to get to New York. Here it is pluto!bc-cis!phri!cmcl2!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo NY NY NY NY MA CO IL IL IL NJ NJ It seems odd that the message goes thru Massachusetts, Colorado, and Illinois when last time I went to New Jersey, it was just across the Hudson. I'm not complaining, so please don't tell me about phone line costs, but if anyone is in a position to do something about this, I'm sure many of us would be most appreciative. I guess it would be nice if ATT machines sent their news to a backbone site somewhere in the NY area in addition to sending it to Chicago, or if ihnp4 sent it right to NY, or if there was an ATT backbone site in NJ that talked to NY. Of course, I've seen worse paths that didn't fit on two lines, just this one struck me as having an unusually high path-to-distance ratio. -- /|/~\~~\ The entire world Warren Burstein |__/__/_/ is a very narrow carrot. | But the farmer philabs!tg!pluto!warren / is not afraid at all. Why doesn't life come with subtitles?