🚀 go-pugleaf

I can maybe understand WHY some sites will actively re-route. (I am not saying
I am in favour of it or against it, merely why it may be happening). Take
as an example the path Mr. Vixie's posting took to reach lakart from decwrl:

	lakart!cfisun!ima!spdcc!bloom-beacon!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie

as opposed to the "optimal" path from lakart to decwrl:

	lakart!xait!garp!decvax!decwrl!vixie

Now, if I'm footing the bill for transferring this information, which path
do you think I'm going to use. From the point of view of people who spend
quite a bit of money moving other people's mail around, they want to shorten
up paths as much as possible to save their (& other sites) costs. At least
that is one possible hypothesis. As to whether they are acheiving anything
(vis a vis lost mail bouncing around uucp land) I cannot comment upon that.

One suggestion would be to post to news.config saying:

dead	{adelie!minya}
dead	{minya!adelie}

And when the maps get updated your problem goes away. (For those that are
interested, and for the personal edification of Mr. Albery at ncoast) I am
currently working on a pathalias version that is A: runnable on (maybe)
a big PC, (i.e. 8086, 640K), and B: admittedly somewhat slower than
the regular pathalias (the data conversion alone takes over 10 mins
on lakart, against a straight 7 mins for running pathalias). However once
it is posted I will personally flame out of existance anyone who complains
that they can't afford to update their maps at least once a week. (PDP/11
users excepted - I don't think I can fit it in 64K)

		You have been warned :-)
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