Subj : Old Versus New - Ways
To   : All
From : Ross Cassell
Date : Sun Jul 13 2008 11:46 am

Hello All!

As we see people muse over the issues of netmail routing, we do run into a 
issue caused by the ways people link together to move or get mail.

In the old days, one could reasonably point a routing table entry for an entire 
network to one hub and that every routed piece of netmail for anyone or 
everyone in that net would arrive at the target destination.

Today it is not unusual for a network of a few people or several people to have 
some if not all of its members /each/ have a unique separate feed and then not 
be interconnected amongst each other.

This poses a challenge for ones route table, its easier to point netmail 
towards an entire net, whereas having a table that has to have individual nodes 
pointed to several locations.

Here in NET123, I do feed most of the nodes, but a few do feed elsewhere, Joe 
Hub Sysop doesnt know which ones feed where, then thusly gets fingered as being 
a netmail bottleneck, unjustly so.

I do plan on putting up a mechanism that will allow nets/nodes and hubs to 
report routing, but it is going to take some time.

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Ross
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