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In article <1992Feb11.052750.15100@mongrel.uucp> amdunn@mongrel.uucp (Andrew M. Dunn) writes:
|In article <3HDwFB1w164w@mma.beltrix.guild.org> vic@mma.beltrix.guild.org (Vic Kulikauskas) writes:
|>
|>    Why not publish connections to uunet.ca with a rather high
|>    "cost" associated with them (i.e. tell the software the truth),
|>    so that mail will preferentially get routed by other means, but
|>    the high-cost route gets chosen when the alternative becomes
|>    ridiculously long and complicated?
|
|The problem with this is that both UUNET-to-you and you-to-UUNET mail
|would also avoid the high-cost route, thus removing the need to subscribe
|to UUNET in the first place!
|
|Your later suggestion makes more sense.  We need to use cost numbers
|only when routing THROUGH a site, not routing TO it.  Or, actually, two
|sets of cost numbers.
|
|Sounds complicated and tough to add, but it's a thought...


	It's not complicated really - here's a
	simple pathalias map entry that does
	what you want:

		mysite	<uunet.ca>(DIRECT),
			uunet.ca(DAILY)


	It has a low cost TO uunet.ca, but a much
	higher cost THROUGH it...


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