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Article #267Re: No Routing Problems in Europe????
From: Solanti Petri
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1989 17:03
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1989 17:03
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From article <8612@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US>, by wnp@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul):
> And I thought they didn't have any routing problems or mail bouncing
> in Europe!
Of course it happens sometimes. Router can be down for some reasons or
one machine may disappear from the net or new software release is buggy ...
But I suppose that Eunet is one of the best organised computer network
in the world.
> Then why do we have this message going to the US, to enable two Europeans
> (one in Britain, the other in France) to communicate with each other?
Perhaps it's for ensuring that someone finds this message. Not everybody
is reading eunet.general.
> This illustrates that even EUnet is not perfect, and shouldn't charge
> rates as if it were.
Show me one perfect thing on the earth created by a human!
The question is not which system is perfect, but which one
is the most reliable.
--
Petri Solanti Tampere University of Technology
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!tut!pso From: pso@etana.tut.fi (Solanti Petri) Newsgroups: news.admin,alt.sources.d Subject: Re: No Routing Problems in Europe???? Message-ID: <7944@etana.tut.fi> Date: 11 Jul 89 17:03:44 GMT References: <8612@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US> Sender: News@tut.fi Lines: 27