Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write? Message-ID: <75110378@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Date: 2 Jan 91 10:33:50 GMT References: <277FE143.513F@tct.uucp> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Lines: 17 What I don't like about the rewriting rule where sitea!siteb!sitec!dom.ain!user becomes simply user@dom.ain is the assumption that, on the other side of all those site[abc] nodes, "dom.ain" really means what we think it means! Maybe "sitec" is a gateway to SiberiaNet and 'ti.com' really means Trans-Irkutsk Commune or something! In this sense RFC976 and rabid rerouting could make strange bedfellows. Does a dotted sitename automatically have to conform to the One True DNS or else forfeit legal mention in a UUCP path?