ptw@vaxine.UUCP (P. Tucker Withington) (07/07/83)
I believe there is a little confusion w.r.t. the pathalias costing functions that may be causing mail to be mis-routed. In particular, the meaning of POLLED seems to be misunderstood; and it may not be understood that links can and should have different costings in each direction. My optimistic interpretation: DEMAND You call the site when you need to You may also call when you don't need to (e.g., "hourly") HOURLY The site "polls" you, often EVENING,DAILY,WEEKLY,etc. The site "polls" you, less and less often POLLED The site only calls you when it needs to, implying you have a very inefficient way back (i.e., random chance) DEAD Snobol's chance on a LISPMachine of getting through Thus if site "a" can call "b" on demand, but also does a "uucico -r1 b" every hour because "b" can't dial out, "a" is (HOURLY) to "b" and "b" is (DEMAND) to "a". If "a" calls "c" on demand, and has no provision to "uucico -r1 c", "c" is also (DEMAND) to "a", but "a" is at most (POLLED) to "c". Unfortunately, POLLED is currently much closer to DAILY than it is to DEAD. Maybe it should be redefined to DEAD/2? P. Tucker Withington (ptw@vaxine.UUCP) Automatix Inc. (617) 667-7900x2044