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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Another example why not to re-route
Summary: Yes, "Options: Nobounce"
Message-ID: <3621@phri.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 88 16:03:48 GMT
References:  <2696@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
> It would be great if there was another option something like;
> 	OPTIONS: NOBOUNCE
> which meant that the bouncing site just returned the header.

	Absolutely a great idea.  A few years ago somebody around here
decided to get rn running.  I told him to get the source on tape but the
turkey decided to go ahead and have somebody halfway across the country
email it to him.  Well, the other turkey (the guy who mailed it) got our
turkey's name wrong so we, of course, bounced the whole friggin' 800 kbytes
of it.  To make life worse, when it got to the other end, the site that
sent it was down for a a few days so the return mail eventually timed out
in somebody's uucp queue and came back to us again.  Bad enough we paid to
mail 800 kbytes in the first place, we also paid to bounce it around the
country another two times!

	I don't remember the details of the path, but it included
allegra!ihnp4.  I'm sure allegra!mp remembers this one.  I think he said
that when he did the uucp stats for that month, lowly little phri showed up
at the top of the list for non-AT&T sites.  Had the various mailers
involved only bounce the headers instead of the whole files, a lot of money
would have been saved all around.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
{allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net
"The connector is the network"