Gds@MIT-XX.ARPA (Greg Skinner) (11/09/84)
The reason why you can't use () for specifying precedence in routing, is, I believe, that () are used for comments in an RFC822 header. At least, in the local Chaosnet mailers it is. However, user-specified precedence seems to me to be a good idea, instead of having all these path servers all over the place. Path servers which do relays only to hosts they know about are fine, but path servers which carry the full UUCP database can get out of whack, causing strange things to happen. From my UUCP experience at work (houxm), a number of machines have different ideas of who they talk to, and how they talk to who they talk to. As an aside, what's the socket number for the UUCP path server? (Mail only, please, and you can send it to ihnp4!houxm!gregbo if you want.) --gregbo -------