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From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route)
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Date: 7 Jul 89 20:46:29 GMT
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> In article <656@kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>     
>     As I understand it, the argument for re-routing and short-circuiting
>     revolves around the idea that some people feel they know how
>     to route mail better than the people who started the mail off.

Does anyone seriously claim that this is not true? Ignore the .1%
of the people who might know how to route mail. The incredible, overwhelming
majority of people (there implicity the overwhelming majority of mail)
have absolutely no idea how to route mail.

I'm not arguing in favor of rerouting, but  I can't conceive of
even a tiny fraction of mail be routed optimally to begin with.