Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route) Message-ID: <659@kl-cs.UUCP> Date: 8 Jul 89 15:31:38 GMT References: <59767@uunet.UU.NET> Organization: University of Keele, England Lines: 39 From article <59767@uunet.UU.NET>, by rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams): >> 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 encourage the users at this site not to route any mail. I tell them to use the address as it is given by the person they are mailing. Ideally this is a domain name, if not the users here put .UUCP or .BITNET on in order to get to the non-domain based networks. The mailer here knows as many advertised forwarders as I can lay my hands on. It then dumps the mail for a domain onto a machine which is advertised as being a forwarder for that domain. Simple, reliable and no need for it to get re-routed. If the mailer doesn't know about a domain then I get the mail as postmaster and I then have to go and research where a forwarder for that domain exists. That way I get to know how email moves around the world and I build up a reliable mailer on this machine. -- ______ JANET :jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs Jonathan Knight, / BITNET:jonathan%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl Department of Computer Science / _ __ other :jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk University of Keele, Keele, (_/ (_) / / UUCP :...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan Staffordshire. ST5 5BG. U.K.