Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:2430 comp.mail.misc:1437 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy 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) Lines: 27 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"