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From: edward@engr.uky.edu (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: routing in the user agent
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Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 12:52:31 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 27 12:52:31 1987
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In article <1631@umix.cc.umich.edu> honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
>In article <7333@e.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron) 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.

I must disagree. With the advent of domains, users aren't supposed
to need to know about routes any more. DA's are the ones that know
all the good routes to places. That way, all a UA has to know is
how to compose and submit a piece of mail.

HOWEVER, I, as a user, should still be able to use, say,

	mail ukma!cbosgd!mtuxo!mtune!rutgers!citi!honey

and not have anything mess with the route.
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