Subj : Cha..Cha....Changes
To   : JANIS KRACHT
From : FOXY FERGUSON
Date : Sun Jul 21 2002 08:07 am

JK> I take it then, since that's the case, there are no objections to
JK> this change in the list by any nodes or people who use the list?

It would appear so...

JK> Will this change in the list make routing mail more difficult or
JK> easier for systems using the list?

In theory, it should make not one iota of difference to the zone hubs.

Point to ponder: to get traffic to a net, it is only necessary that a node
attempting this know WHICH zone hub can/does feed that net. One need not
know, at all times, every single hop any or all mail may take. Especially
since it may take one route going and another getting a reply back to the
sender. A simplification of Region 18's list occurred some time back and
seems to have had no effect upon the efficacy of routed traffic within or
into the region. Of course, one reason may be that, unlike 10 years ago,
R18 is now less than 100 nodes and still shrinking.

There are other alternatives than the one I suggested. One of which is
that changes be posted here and only when it is deemed necessary (ie,
several changes have accumulated such that the last hatched routelist is
badly out of date), hatch a current list.

Aside from the change of your node number and some dropped nets, there has
essentially been no change in the routelist for months.

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