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From: ulmo@well.UUCP (Brad Allen)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Mail overload and so-called "smart" mailers
Message-ID: <558@well.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 21:25:16 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 26 21:25:16 1986
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Summary: The problem of pathaliasing is indeed a bother.  But, there are ways around this ...

> <761@decuac.UUCP>


Let me suggest, perhaps sending mail on paths such as this:
...!ihnp4.notouch!etc
would tell ihnp4 not to touch the rest of the path, and paths
like
...!ihnp4.auto!...   or ...!ihnp4.touch!... would request ihnp4 to
send the path through an alias file.

Of course, perhaps it would do better to say "ihnp4.uucp.notouch"?
I am no network wizzard, but this seems like a feasable and simple
solution, provided that the sender know of it, to the pathalias problems.