[comp.mail.uucp] Maps have bad costs, typically

bob@stl.olivetti.com (Bob Weissman) (11/09/88)

Many of the UUCP maps I see coming in seem to have incorrect costs for
domain gateways.  Typical pathalias input looks like

foohost	= foo.bar.com 
foohost	.foo.bar.com

This assigns a pathalias cost of 4000 to this gateway, since 4000 is
the the default cost in pathalias.  4000 is almost equal to a cost of
DAILY.  Since in many cases foohost *is* foo.bar.com, this cost should
be near zero, for example

foohost	.foo.bar.com(LOCAL)

should it not?  Or am I missing something here?

-- 
Bob Weissman
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honey@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (peter honeyman) (11/09/88)

Bob Weissman asks whether
    foohost	.foo.bar.com
is not better expressed as
    foohost	.foo.bar.com(LOCAL)
for domain gateways in the maps.

this is what i had in mind, and that's the way i do it in the citi map.
i'm pretty sure i pointed this out to mel and mark horton a long time ago.

	peter