Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ncc!lyndon
From: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: this might be getting out of hand...
Message-ID: <10375@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Date: 12 Aug 88 18:31:18 GMT
References: <676@bacchus.DEC.COM> <881@vsi1.UUCP> <340@ateng.UUCP> <1966@stpstn.UUCP> <3746@palo-alto.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
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In article <3746@palo-alto.DEC.COM> vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie) writes:
>Sun, Rutgers, and Harvard are fairly well-connected sites that pass a lot of
>mail without charging for it.  Sometimes they do the "wrong" thing in
>various details, where "wrong" seems to depend on who you ask, but these
>facts remain:
>
>	1. network connectivity would be more chaotic without them
>	  to act as collection points for local geographic areas;

I find this unlikely. There is still life after ihnp4...

>	2. they are doing it all for free, which is a burden on their
>	  machines and on their administrators;
>	3. their machines and their administrators are forever on the
>	  edge of overload;

These are definately contributing factors to the problem.
 
I too must say "thanks" to the sites that voluntarily handle large
volumes of mail for other sites. I don't believe, though, that just
because they do this free of charge, or out of the goodness of their
hearts, that this gives them license to mess up headers or reroute
perfectly valid paths. If one of the sources moderators (who are
also "volunteers") were to start doing a lousy job, nobody would
hesitate to raise hell over that...

There are other sites on the net who handle a respectable volume of
mail who manage to do things quite well without the need for rerouting
or header munging. When's the last time you had mail bounce from pyramid?


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