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From: ptw@vaxine.UUCP (P. Tucker Withington)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: not forwarding mail (UUCP vs. Internet)
Message-ID: <196@vaxine.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jun-83 08:23:34 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  7 08:23:34 1983
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With regard to mixed up uucp and internet addresses in news from path.

Is this a real problem?  When I reply to news articles I throw away all the
explicit routing and let "pathalias" figure it out for me (actually 2.10 news
does this).  I believe "pathalias" will find a much better route than the
reverse of the semi-random news propagation path.

Along these same lines, is anyone working on a dynamic routing algorithm?
Something to the effect of uucp files always being labelled with their FINAL
destination, and each uucp machine deciding how to best send it on its next
hop (with some provision to prevent loops, obviously).  Seems ARPA has this
pretty well knocked, couldn't IMP routing algorithm be adapted?

Or do most really important mail routes occur in one hop anyways?

				       --Tucker (ptw@vaxine.UUCP)