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. Lines: 33 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? -- VE6BBM {alberta,pyramid,uunet}!ncc!lyndon lyndon@Nexus.CA