Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!mlb.semi.harris.com!thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com!del From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Who pays the bill? Message-ID: <1990Aug3.010834.4506@mlb.semi.harris.com> Date: 3 Aug 90 01:08:34 GMT References: <1990Aug1.230858.3264@iwarp.intel.com> Sender: news@mlb.semi.harris.com Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL Lines: 31 In article <1990Aug2.162214.24074@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >ath.lsa.umic >Organization: U of Toronto Zoology >Lines: 12 > >In article <1990Aug02.040424.20586@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >>I think that new versions should do the right thing and drop the user name >>from the path and make it unusable as a reply path. It's tough, but USENET >>can't stay backwards compatible to A news all its life. > >Well, it's a simple choice: you can enforce your ideas of purity and >cleanliness, at the price of shafting a lot of users who have primitive >software and can't do anything about it, or you can leave things the >way they are. I'm not sure what the change is supposed to buy us. One particular piece of mail that bounced when it got here comes to mind. It was sent back along the news Path: from New Jersey to Florida to Wisconsin to Texas to Ohio to ..., or something like that anyway. It doesn't sound very efficient to me. The chances of the reply getting to the correct destination correctly are not very good, if it does arrive it will take quite a while, and it will consume a lot more net resources than necessary. It sure seems that almost anything could be better. There are periodic discussions in the comp.mail.* groups between the various mail re-router factions on how to handle mail with disgustingly long bang paths. -- Don "Truck" Lewis Harris Semiconductor Internet: del@mlb.semi.harris.com PO Box 883 MS 62A-028 Phone: (407) 729-5205 Melbourne, FL 32901