[geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
>> That's not what I meant.
>>
>> What I meant was that many people provided bang-paths to those 
>> particular machines because they were well connected and well known. 
>> Literally everyone knew how to get the ucbvax.  It was the center of the 
>> UUCP network.
> 
> I understood you the first time, I just question the validity of it.
> 
> No machine in the maps was any more well known than any other.  It was
> just an entry in the database like any other.
> 
> odu was in the maps, so there was no effective difference between the two.

The difference is that I could route my mail to the more common machines 
*without* checking the map.

Peace...  Sridhar