Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!pallas@Pescadero.ARPA From: pallas@Pescadero.ARPA (Joseph I. Pallas) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: "blaming Unix SendMail" Message-ID: <492@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 18:06:05 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.492 Posted: Fri Apr 20 18:06:05 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Apr-84 07:22:58 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 12 To: MRC@SU-Score, smoot@UT-SALLY.ARPA Cc: Header-People@MIT-MC.ARPA Sorry, MRC, but relative addressing is still necessary even when it is safe to use. In your example, foo!bar!rag!zowie it's still possible that foo doesn't know how to talk to ANY machine named rag, let alone two of them. That's why SMTP supports source routing. Of course, domains will change all that Real Soon Now. joe