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Article #4455Re: routing in the user agent
From: daveb
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1987 19:16
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1987 19:16
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||In article <7461@g.ms.uky.edu>, david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:
||Nonsense. I have much better info than that. My mailer extracts the
||paths from all incoming mail and puts it (with a timestamp) into the
||database. I thus have good info on good paths to those people who
||have sent me mail lately. This is at worst the same data as is used
||by the mailers; it is usually better.
In article <7651@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
|Excuse me, but that's not always the case. Things like the net map are
|smart enough to understand that all paths are not bidirectional, or at
|least not equal in cost in both directions. Your reversal of the
|incoming path may produce an inefficient or inoperative path.
Sounds like you need to have a path database and update routes
known to be bidirectional on the basis of usage. Not an
unreasonable thing for a prolong (oops, prolog) program to do.
Add another rule!
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David Collier-Brown. {mnetor|yetti|utgpu}!geac!daveb
Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its
350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!yetti!geac!daveb From: daveb@geac.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: routing in the user agent Message-ID: <1675@geac.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 14:16:05 EST Article-I.D.: geac.1675 Posted: Fri Oct 23 14:16:05 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 10:46:22 EST References: <279@minya.UUCP> <7461@g.ms.uky.edu> <287@minya.UUCP> <7651@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown) Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star. Lines: 23 Keywords: bounced mail, rerouting Summary: Oops! Add another rule.