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From: warren@pluto.UUCP
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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
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Organization: Industrial Automation Systems - New York, NY
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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?