Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Rerouting considered GOOD Message-ID: <6@jove.dec.com> Date: 29 Sep 88 03:23:28 GMT References: <8809212215.AA21035@naggum.se> <2540@sultra.UUCP> <371@ditka.UUCP><1988Sep27.105604.5152@ateng.ateng.com> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 27 I've just discovered that Brian Kantor has put me in his KILL file for this group. This is muchly sad; I don't think of myself as a flamer. Various of this groups readers have sent me notes of appreciation in the past, and I like to think I cause more pleasure than frustration. Are there more of you out there who are thinking of KILLing me? If I am being widely perceived as a destructive and irritating presence, I'd like to know about it. Anyway, on with the topic. Today, we see Eliot still trying valiantly to save rerouting from a well-deserved Thunk in the Network Bit Bucket: # I say, ``Well I know there is bad data out there, and my solution will # be to discover/research(/divine;-) better methods of update and # propagation.'' And, in fact, I am working just on such a method. # I'll let you all in on it when it's finished. Eliot, please include in your divine plans a way for all active rerouters to know which advertised remote links I don't want my mail to go through on the day-by-day basis I make that selection; also, you should divine the list of UNadvertised links I DO wish to use, even though I don't want anyone but me and a small group of other sites to use them and which I therefore don't ever write down in anyone's map entries. This ought to be an interesting plan. -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013