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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: why you should say "-d rutgers -d sun" in your pathalias command line
Message-ID: <8528@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 88 19:01:37 GMT
References: <676@bacchus.DEC.COM> <881@vsi1.UUCP> <10135@e.ms.uky.edu> <60@minya.UUCP>
Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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[isn't this fun?  Why don't we have a talk.routes]

>"replies along news paths are always sub-optimal",

jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) replies:
>You're wrong there.  For instance, try responding by email to this article.
>You will use a news path.  Why?  Well, this machine has 4 neighbors, and

Nope.  Here's the Path: line as it arrived here:
Path: ulowell!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!ima!minya!jc

A reply from here would go to mit-eddie!minya!jc.  Not a news path.

>[Any errors in the above are due to failures in the logic of the keyboard,

Obviously.

..Bob


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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
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