Can something be done about this in the link weights file?
The link to Chile is not up 24 hours a day and so should be
avoided unless absolutely necessary.  Thanks.
 
Roger
 
> Received: from JHUVM(MAILER@JHUVM) by NIHCU (Mailer) id 1952
>               Tue, 16 Aug 88  11:44:42 EDT
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> Date:         Tue, 16 Aug 1988 11:39:30 EDT
> From:         Jim Jones <L64A0110@JHUVM>
> Subject:      Re: mail delivery error
> To:           "Mark F. Haven" <MHQ@NIHCU>
> In-Reply-To:  Your message of Mon, 15 Aug 88 09:20:09 EDT
>
>
> >From:     "Mark F. Haven" <MHQ@NIHCU>
> >Date:     Mon, 15 Aug 88  09:14:21 EDT
> >Subject:  Chile is rather distant.
> >
> >This morning I sent a message to your LISTSERV of
> >INFO GENINFO.  I received an automated reply that the file
> >LISTSERVMEMO was being sent to me - so far so good.  Following
> >this I got 3 lines of a message requesting that I send further
> >requests to my nearest listserv host - problem was that it
> >referred me to my nearest listserv host as being:
> >  LISTSERV@UCHCECVM  As best I can tell that location is
> >the Universidad de Chile Centro de Computacion!  (I suspect
> >there is a closer one (;-).)  Just thought you might like to
> >know of the message generated from your site (FYI NIHCU is
> >near Washington, D.C.).
>
>  It's odd how these things work sometimes, but to tell you the truth,
>  your site may very well be closer to UCHCECVM than JHUVM in some
>  sense. Let me explain; a file sent from NIHCU to UCHCECVM passes
>  through the following machines:  NIHCU--UMDD--UCHCECVM  whereas a
>  file sent from NIHCU to JHUVM takes the following, longer route of:
>  NIHCU--UMDD--UMDB--GWUVM--PSUVMXA--JHUVM
>
>  So, even though geographically your much closer to Baltimore than Chile,
>  the Chilean node is closer when network links are the deciding factor.
>  It's not as simple as counting the number of links, each link is given
>  a "weighted" value and these values are summed.  If you have troubles
>  using the UCHCECVM node (for example if the node is unreachable much of
>  the time) please let me know and I'll try to find out how your node can
>  be allowed to use a LISTSERV in the US.
>
>  It's not that unusual for mail to travel odd paths (geographically that
>  is) between two machines.  Since there is no centralized control of
>  network configuration (anyone can choose to connect to BITNET via any
>  other consenting node), BITNET has grown very odd topologically.  For
>  example, to get from JHU to UMBC2 (which are both in the Baltimore area)
>  the route is:  JHUVM--PSUVMXA--GWUVM--UMDD--UMDB--UMBC2
>
>  -jj