Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site vaxine.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!ptw 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 Article-I.D.: vaxine.196 Posted: Tue Jun 7 08:23:34 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jun-83 17:10:31 EDT References: <1315@tekecs.UUCP> Organization: Automatix Inc., Billerica, MA Lines: 16 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)