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From: honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: routing in the user agent
Message-ID: <1631@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 02:08:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 26 02:08:41 1987
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In article <7333@e.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:
>At the moment our problem with it [mush] is that
>
>	1. It wants to do routing ... That feature can be turned
>	   off, but still it doesn't belong in a User Agent.

it follows from bitter experience that routing in the DA should be of
the most casual style ("dumb" or "first host" routing).

the UA is precisely where routing belongs, where it can be as smart as
you like since the user can inspect and modify the result.

	peter