ml>> i don't host route... i've found it much easier to sent netmail
 ml>> to my echomail links and let it sort out from there... FWTW:
 ml>> i've been doing that for at least 12 years...

 RZ> The same here, was just a theoretical doubt  :-)  phone bills,
 RZ> mainly intl calls, are too expensive, and the nodelist many
 RZ> times unreliable. In my country, probably zone, route everything
 RZ> through the 1st uplink is and was used for almost 100% of
 RZ> netmails. Direct/crash only in special cases, with manual
 RZ> overseeing...

yes, exactly...

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