smk (01/16/83)
There has been talk off and on about a program that figures the optimum path to get from machine a to b, using things like path distance, link reliability, link speed, polling times, ... Such a program should have been made an integral part of the news/uucp/USENET software, but since it's not, I wuold like to incorporate into our system. I would greatly appreciate someone sending me the program. However, I think the program should be posted to net.sources. If it is large, it's usefulnes will outweigh the size needed to transmit it. If enough people use it, it will cut down on much of the traffic on the net, by eliminating machines whenever possible and also eliminating the delay.