kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) (01/05/89)
By default, uunet seems to list all connections to paying
customers as DEMAND. While this may be correct in some
cases, it's far from correct for most sites I know. I'd
guess something like EVENING listed as a terminal link
would be much closer to an accurate cost, if not POLLED
or DAILY.
Beyond leading to some screwy paths generated by pathalias,
this can lead to increased costs for anybody who doesn't
catch it and ask uunet to change their map entry, or worse,
for folks who don't have the slightest idea what's going
on. This almost seems to border on being unethical.
Can anybody explain/justify this practice?
(I'm not trying to flame uunet or anybody else, though I
don't particularly like having to tinker with my local
pathalias input every time somebody nearby connects to
uunet and suddenly all my paths go thru joe!uunet.)
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