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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route)
Message-ID: <1894@prune.bbn.com>
Date: 10 Jul 89 14:25:40 GMT
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Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
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I think Paul Vixie first wrote this:    
>The Moral: don't short-circuit.
    
Then I replied:
 >   Wrong.  The Moral:  don't put full domain names into email paths if
 >   they're going through the Internet and you don't want them short-circuited.
 >   Hack the path to be something like
 >   	noe!packet_radio!kg6kf_ampr_org!callsign!callsign

Then Piercarlo Grandi replied;
 >Ugh! Ugh! Pain... Fro two reasons: this is a horrible hack, and, and, let me
 >repeat my NHO, this is Internet parochialism. There is nobody that has ever
 >said that domain names are restricted to the Internet.

I don't have a problem with Piercarlo's point.

However, people who read my message CAREFULLY will not that I was only
talking about the Internet.  I wasn't talking about anyone else.  I don't
care about anyone else.

Please re-read my first quoted sentence again.

If you take mail out of the Internet via an MX record, and you then
inject it back into the Internet with a domain name, you're asking for
trouble.
	/r$
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