Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!ditka!kls From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Rerouting considered GOOD Summary: *routing* is good, *re*routing is evil Message-ID: <371@ditka.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 88 19:19:33 GMT References: <8809212215.AA21035@naggum.se> <2540@sultra.UUCP> Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) Organization: Inaction Central, Los Alamos, New Mexico Lines: 33 In article <2540@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes: > >a lot of times I haven't got the foggiest idea how to get mail to a given site, >and would appreciate a relay along the way cleaning up my routing (as an >exercise, pick a site in Ireland ... Ok, let's say I wanted to get mail to user@uujmvx, a site the maps claim to be in Northern Ireland. Running smail on ditka tells me this would be routed as follows: emoryu1!gatech!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!uunet!mcvax!ukc!uujmvx!user Hypothetically speaking, let's say uunet was a rerouter. (It is not, to the best of my knowledge.) If I had wanted uunet to "clean up my routing" I would have let it do the routing in the first place, by mailing to emoryu1!gatech!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!uunet!uujmvx!user or even just let ditka figure out how to get to uunet uunet!uujmvx!user Presumably, I did not add the extra three hops to the address because my fingers needed the exercise. Therefore, unless there is some serious problem with those links (such as uunet not talking to mcvax anymore) uunet should assume I had some reason for putting them in and leave its bloody paws off them. (Which it does, as far as I can tell.) -- Karl Swartz |UUCP {gatech!emoryu1,uunet!dasys1}!ditka!kls 1-505/667-2402 (work) |ARPA rt1!ditka!kls@hc.dspo.gov 1-505/672-3113 (home) |BIX kswartz "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." (Twain)