Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: mail servers Message-ID: <_FJ5SHD@xds30.ferranti.com> Date: 29 Aug 90 17:15:22 GMT References: <9RE5N-9@xds13.ferranti.com> <4071@lib.tmc.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15 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. In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: > (2) Among the other features of the Domain Name System is its > assistance in hiding such transport-level properties from > applications. But in most cases a NZIC link hidden in the DNS is paid for by the owner of that domain. Unless you put third parties in your own domain this is not a problem. And even if you do, you can presumably remonstrate with them about it. The problem with mailservers is when they start routing messages through NZIC links where neither end is accountable for the cost. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com