Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1627 comp.mail.headers:395 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: Re: what do _YOU_ mean by "all routing"?? Message-ID: <32@volition.dec.com> Date: 13 Aug 88 01:01:17 GMT References: <3732@palo-alto.DEC.COM><22608@amdcad.AMD.COM> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 18 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 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