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In article <3232@cbosgd.ATT.COM> mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
>[much removed] and now mail from DEC to a UUCP domain
>is forwarded properly, as Phil points out - in his case via Sun.

Ah, but it doesn't recognize that there already is a direct connection
between decwrl and amdcad that works quite well, thank you..  Why make
an extra hop?  Wasteful!

>The extra hop should be transparent and quite fast, since it goes
>over the ARPANET from decwrl to sun. 

Sorry, but that isn't always the case.  Decwrl, while on the Internet,
isn't on the Arpanet, it's on the Milnet.  Sun hangs off of one of SRI's
internal networks and those networks get routed through the Arpanet, which
means you have to go through one of the damnable Arpanet/Milnet gateways.

In the best of all possible worlds, the packets would go through a very
nearby gateway (um, SRI may have an arpa/mil gw but I don't think so) such
as LBL (Lawrence Laboratory, Berkeley) but the EGP data that has been flying
around these days might force their packets to go through (ugh) bbn-milnet-gw
which is way the hell out on the east coast (you have to get your money 
changed when you go out there an everything!).
-- 
Why have keyboards gotten so horrible in recent years?  The \i\b\m-\p\c
has become an \'\industry \standard\' and the vt200 is an <i<s<o standard.
Ick.  Give me back my vt52 keyboard!

Andrew Scott Beals, {lll-crg,decwrl}!amdcad!bandy