Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!lib!thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu From: jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: mail servers Message-ID: <4071@lib.tmc.edu> Date: 28 Aug 90 18:06:18 GMT References: <9RE5N-9@xds13.ferranti.com> Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu Organization: University of Texas Medical School at Houston Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: 129.106.7.3 In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >In article <9RE5N-9@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > Just make sure your mail-based server can recognise a NZIC > [Non-Zero Incremental Cost] link (easy, it's got a "!" in it) and > refuses to send if it's not terminal. >(2) Among the other features of the Domain Name System is its >assistance in hiding such transport-level properties from >applications. Most of the DNS is pure win. You've identified one place where it's a problem: it prevents a user from finding out such properties if that's needed. If the application had that information available, then it could make an intelligent decision about whether or not to use such a link. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity. "It's a hardware bug!" "It's a +--------------------------------------- software bug!" "It's two...two...two bugs in one!" - _Engineer's Rap_