Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site ndm20 Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!ndm20!tp From: tp@ndm20 Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <3700006@ndm20> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 13:25:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ndm20.3700006 Posted: Mon Sep 16 13:25:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 04:51:49 EDT References: <10337@ucbvax.ARPA> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:ucbvax.ARPA:-1033700:ndm20:3700006:000:913 Nf-From: ndm20!tp Sep 16 12:25:00 1985 >Instead of just going over and over this, why don't you explain the >algorithm you recommend for guessing the next site to choose? That would >help in furthering the discussion. And while you are doing it, remember that idealism is nice, but to really get the mail through in the real world, you had better not assume that any machine along the way has a mailer that can send to a non-adjacent site unless you have certain knowledge. If I were host1 in your example your mail would be returned to you as undeliverable. I have pathalias, but I don't have an intelligent mailer that can be told to look things up in it, since I am not running 4BSD. And if you hand me user@host, my mailer will be real unhappy, because it doesn't like @'s. Terry Poot Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers (214)739-4741 Usenet: ...!{allegra|ihnp4}!convex!smu!ndm20!tp CSNET: ndm20!tp@smu ARPA: ndm20!tp%smu@csnet-relay.ARPA Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com