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From: davecl@shark.UUCP (Dave Clemans)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Re: flame on misguided smartness in mailers
Message-ID: <486@shark.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 11:54:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 11:54:16 1984
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I can think of at least one reason:

Say that you are on machine a.  Machine a has uucp connections to machine
b and machine c.  Machine b also has a uucp connection to machine c.

Say that for some reason you know that the link between machine a and
machine c is down for about a week or two (dial-out modem problems or
something) but the link between machine b and machine c is still up.

Then you might want to use an address like "a!b!c" because that would
get through faster even though the normal address of "a!c" would look
shorter (in terms of hopcount) to the mailer on machine a.

dgc