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From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
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Subject: Re: what do _YOU_ mean by "all routing"??
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Date: 13 Aug 88 01:01:17 GMT
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In article <22608@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
# That is what I think should be done. If you get a uucp bang route and
# the next hop is incorrect, bounce it back. Bang routes are presumably
# used because the sender knew the route he wanted. If you get an @
# address, then that is eligible for routing. 

Hmmm.  I don't think that will work - it's hard to get @'s to appear in
the address another site sees for forwarding.  It is fairly easy to get
it to see !'s, though, so mail to smarthost!someplaceelse!somebody is
safer.  Granted, there's no way to tell on smarthost whether the sender
wants autorouting or whether they just typed the route wrong -- which is
why I'm so hot on only routing to the first host in the path rather than
stripping hosts off the way Rutgers does.  Do the minimum, etc.
-- 
Paul Vixie
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