Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!necntc!dandelion!ulowell!page 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. Lines: 24 [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 -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page "What a wonder is USENET; such wholesale production of conjecture from such a trifling investment in fact." -- Carl S. Gutekunst