On Thu, 4 Apr 91 10:01:36 IST Zvika Bar-Deroma said:
>Generally, but NOT always if there's a closer LISTSERV downstream, the
>delivering LISTSERV (the node just before your own system's mailer header),
>is as close as any.  I subscribe to one list which originates on YaleVM
>(one hop away) which sends my list mail to Marist (also one hop away)
>THROUGH my host and then Marist sends it to me (?!!).  The DISTribute
>table may not be optimized for that one :-) Marist IS a backbone (probably
>accounts for the behavior).
 
I'll admit that it's 2:30AM and I've been up a while longer than I
should have.
 
I suspect that this is "working as designed" - although it *is* sending
one copy THROUGH uconnvm to marist and back, it can be presumed that
uconnvm-yalevm is more heavily loaded than uconnvm-marist, and thus
sending two files across the Marist link is better than sending two
across the yalevm link....
 
I would expect that it would ship from yalevm right to uconnvm if and
only if there were no other recipients that could be bundled into a
Marist shipment - which would explain why it doesn't always happen...
 
                                  Valdis Kletnieks
                                  Computer Systems Engineer
                                  Virginia Polytechnic Institute
 
P.S. If I'm incoherent or wrong, somebody please point it out and I'll
try again when I'm thinking straight...