Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!shark!davecl 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 Article-I.D.: shark.486 Posted: Thu Feb 9 11:54:16 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 07:38:23 EST References: <3515@utzoo.UUCP>,<5680@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 14 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