Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1629 comp.mail.headers:397 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!peregrine!elroy!ames!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.headers Subject: Eliot Lear's final words aren't about this problem Message-ID: <34@volition.dec.com> Date: 13 Aug 88 01:16:58 GMT References: <3732@palo-alto.DEC.COM><22608@amdcad.AMD.COM> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 36 The folks at Rutgers seem intent on making us all work harder -- these obscene message-id's they generate keep making RN blow up. Yes, I know I can fix my software, but why is it always Rutgers that makes things stretch to their breaking point? Sigh. Not my topic, please ignore. In article lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) writes: # My final words on the subject.... # # Note: The use of source routing is discouraged. Unless the # sender has special need of path restriction, the choice # of transmission route should be left to the mail tran- # sport service. # # [RFC-822: Section 6.7.2, Page 32] Eliot, The person you need to yell at for this offense is Dave Taylor. ELM is the only user agent I know of that has an option for automatic source routing. Perhaps you can tell at Dan Heller, MUSH has everything else, it probably has this too. But you aren't addressing my complaint. My mail transport software (sendmail) is selecting a source route. Your mail transport software (who knows?) is overriding it. And note "unless the sender has special need of path restriction" -- this means that if the sender has some reason to select a certain source route, the mail transport software should respect that choice. -- Paul Vixie Digital Equipment Corporation Work: vixie@dec.com Play: paul@vixie.UUCP Western Research Laboratory uunet!decwrl!vixie uunet!vixie!paul Palo Alto, California, USA +1 415 853 6600 +1 415 864 7013