Subj : proposed new nodelist
To   : Jasen Betts
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jul 17 2002 07:27 pm

 JB> Hmm, does anyone know what's an "RVIA" flag for and where is
 JB> it documented?

it is a failed experiment... it was started to store routing information in the 

nodelist... RVIA is Route VIA... there are additional ones, too... and no, i'm 
not sure where they ever were documented... they started as something tossed 
out in FTSC_PUBLIC (AIR) and a few jumped on it and added it to their nodelist 
entries as a userflag... userflags are experimental, right? in any case, others 

then jumped on that idea and added a method of scanning for those flags to 
generate netmail routing charts... sadly, none of those who fought (in Z1) 
about this even _use_ the information in their routing charts... the biggest 
idea was to try to get netmail routing as close to the hands of the destination 

system as possible rather than going on as had been where things just kinda 
flowed whichever way and the netmail might reach it's destination...

)\/(ark

 
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