Fair point as well, and I suspect I'm as guilty of that as anybody who digested the rule in 1st edition and never really had much reason to question it.
I remember I also had a Rout flowchart that came with... I want to say FFE newsletter... or maybe ASLUG... or maybe Rout Report...
It was handwritten and photocopied into the newletter, but we found it very accurate to the rules (at the time) and an invaluable resource. Truth be told, we wore out that thing over the course of 20 scenarios or so, and then had routing down cold (as we understood it). An updated version of that flowchart would be pretty useful I think, and could become a defacto authority. 98% of the work is already done (but the remaining 2% would be tricky, as this thread shows).
I dug it out. The note at the very bottom was written in by me. We needed that for clarity at some point, but I don't recall the details now.
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