Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!ames!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route) Message-ID: Date: 14 Jul 89 05:50:59 GMT References: <1062@aber-cs.UUCP> <59767@uunet.UU.NET> <3648@ncar.ucar.edu> <3842@phri.UUCP> <1989Jul13.153336.3175@eci386.uucp> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 13 In article <1989Jul13.153336.3175@eci386.uucp> clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis) writes: > It also appears obvious that anyone giving an explicit bang path > (eg: a!b!c!d) may very well know what they're doing, and it shouldn't be > touched. Far from obvious! In some instances, it will be users memorizing paths that they were told. In others, uucp addresses are placed in mailing lists and forgotten. In fact, it is impossible to tell what the intentions of an individual are when they use a UUCP address. -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]