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From: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Another example why not to re-route
Message-ID: <14430@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 7 Dec 88 21:17:43 GMT
References: <2703@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan)
Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria Univ, Wellington, New Zealand
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In article <2703@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>However, I don't think it would have been a henious sin on the
>part of mips (or pyramid) to dump the rest of the path, and drop the mail onto
>my site directly.  Comments?

I suspect a response from this part of the world will not make it out in
time to save Paul Vixie having to repeat the same argument yet again,
which will be a pity, 'cause he seems to be getting a fair amount of
flaming for saying sensible things!

Anyway, once again ... if mail is manually routed to

	mips!pyramid!uunet!sultra!dtynan

neither mips nor pyramid has any right to assume that the final "sultra"
is the one registered in the maps, or the one that they talk directly
to -- they have to follow the given path to ensure the mail gets to the
right site.

Duncan