optimized network paths for news 2.10.2

[Piet Beertema]

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	>If one defines INTERNET in the news software even if one knows that
	>the path to the site it is going to use is wrong there is no way to
	>overide it. This is my fundamental objection to the INTERNET option
	>of news.
Now THAT has nothing to do with the INTERNET option in news, but everything
with how intelligent (or not) your mailer is. If you do a reply and are thrown
into your favorite editor you can always alter the "To:" line, e.g. using the
info from the "Path:" line. And then it depends on your mailer whether or not
it does (re)routing regardless of the path you gave. Our (re)routing strategy
is not to do (re)routing unless the first site in the given path isn't one of
our uucp connections. Thus "user at astrovax" and "astrovax!user" will be routed,
but "decvax!.....!astrovax!user" not.
-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
	...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet