Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route) Message-ID: <12187@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 16 Jul 89 21:03:08 GMT References: <562@daitc.daitc.mil> <12167@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <1888@prune.bbn.com> <423@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 21 In article karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >Aydin, I'll throw your own argument back at you: If you want to play >in the game, don't skip _some_ of the rules. > >The rules for source routing are explicit in the syntactic definition >they must use. !-path routes do not constitute a source route. Karl, what'chu been smokin' boy? !-routes are too source routes! Not within the rfc-822 frame of source routes, but within the rfc-976 frame of view. Just as IP has it's own view of what source routes are, so does UUCP and domain-land. The things that Aydin quoted are very good points by which to live. -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- WARNING: Hunting season is now open in West Virginia!