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In article <626@tiamat.fsc.com> jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor) writes:
>Just out of curiousity, why would you even bother with a one-way uucp link
>used for mail purposes?  (I understand, and use, one-way anon uucp links for
>file pick ups.)

Well, as it happens, I have one-way uucp links into amms4.  We have no outgoing
phone line from amms4, but that is where news lives, and where most mail is
originated from.  The out-bound link is thru amms2, which is connected to amms4
via 2 dedicated links (uucp, one each way - I know, ethernet is better, but it
isn't an option here).

As a result of this, I occasionally send mail along the following path, just
to clear out the spooling directory:

	amms4!amms2!some_other_system!amms4!hjg

God help me if my mailer were to be smart enough to short-circuit that path.
(As to why this is even necessary: at least one of the sites that provides the
dual-link [amms2 & amms4] is unwilling to poll amms4 regularly, so if something
hangs around for more than a day, I have to prod it - ugh - I'm seriously
thinking of dropping said link(s) as being too much trouble - but that's a
different story :-).

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		Harry Gross				 |  reserved for
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Internet: hjg@amms4.UUCP   (we're working on registering)|  clever - any
UUCP: {jyacc, rna, bklyncis}!amms4!hjg			 |  suggestions?