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From: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Subject: Re: Smail 3.? question
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.031331.4485@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: UTCS Unix Computing Services
References: <708@seer.UUCP> <1991Jan02.205814.2454@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991Jan08.173128.29835@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 12 Jan 91 08:13:31 GMT
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larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
...
| nstar.rn.com's paths database uses SMTP to route mail where
| possible - instead of the traditional bangpaths - which results
| in fewer hops - and I would like to force all inbound mail to
| be rerouted based on nstar.rn.com's paths database --

 This comes up periodically, and I would like to drop in a general
note about people who try to do uucp->Internet->somewhere mail. Unless
the link you are using is either advertised or you have talked to the
system administrator/postmaster in question, this is both rude and not
guaranteed to work -- and if it breaks, I doubt the postmaster in
question will be particularly sympathetic.

 In the past, people have attempted to route mail this way
(uucp->Internet->uucp, in fact) through a local machine that's on both
networks and had problems. When they asked or complained about them I
told them that while we knew about the problem and I expected it would
get solved sometime, but that it was not high on our list of
priorities because they were exploiting information not in the UUCP
maps.

--
"Anyone forging articles should be writing news software instead,
 if you get the headers right you're ahead of some implementations.
 Try writing a gateway, that'll test your skills."	- Ed Vielmetti
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