> *** Quoting Malcolm Miles from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

>> It's best if they have POTS at least for ZMH (or some other
>> published time though the nodelist format doesnt have a way to do
>> that currently).  In Z3, do RC's not also route netmail?

>> They are not required to, although I am sure that if a netmail arrived
>> at any of our RCs systems, they would forward it onto its destination.

>Z1 when I left, for several years had RC routing to any net as a 'backup' that
> any backbone site could use if they didnt know a decent path.  I dont know if
> that's fully true now, but it used to work.

yep, we still do that where possible... most RCs don't mind it at all.

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