Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route)
Message-ID: <3862@phri.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 89 23:47:16 GMT
References: <3842@phri.UUCP> <614@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <614@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
> Fine, but consider the following: lakart!dg from your system is going
> to need _ROUTING_ since phri doesn't talk to lakart.

	I guess it's a difference of opinion (or maybe a difference in
religion) but I would say that my mailer should take lakart!dg and bounce
it rather than route it, since we don't talk to lakart.  My original
premise was that if you want routing, you can use the @host.uucp form; if
you write it in bang form, that means you know better than the maps do, or
at least think you do and are willing to live with the consequences if you
are wrong.
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