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From: win@gatech.edu (Win Strickland Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Short-circuiting a route
Keywords: sendmail, smail, domain names
Message-ID: <18935@gatech.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 89 20:19:17 GMT
References: <562@daitc.daitc.mil> <4140@tank.uchicago.edu> <3570@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: win@gatech.edu (Win Strickland Jr)
Organization: School of ICS, Georgia Tech (Atlanta, Georgia)
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In article <3570@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
#In article <4140@tank.uchicago.edu> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes:
##... what I did was to short-circuit only if the first hop was not a 
##known UUCP neighbor.  
#
#  THANKS! I guess I can mark oddjob as undead now? I see nothing wrong with
#doing this, because there would be no way for you to deliver the message 
#otherwise.

This, in fact, has been the policy at gatech for some time.  Without 
starting a religious debate, I'd be interested in any arguments against
this policy (e-mail please).

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