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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: routing in the user agent
Message-ID: <274@calyx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 13:06:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: calyx.274
Posted: Mon Sep 28 13:06:48 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 07:09:37 EDT
References: <7333@e.ms.uky.edu> <1631@umix.cc.umich.edu> <1599@ukecc.engr.uky.edu>
Reply-To: ariel@calyx.UUCP (Ariel Glenn)
Organization: Calyx Corporation, Milwaukee, WI
Lines: 25
Keywords: bounced mail, rerouting
Summary: Yes, that IS where it belongs

In article <1599@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> edward@engr.uky.edu (Edward C. Bennett) writes:
>In article <1631@umix.cc.umich.edu> honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
>>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.

If domains worked perfectly, if databases were always up to date, if
uucp connections never changed...  but they do.  And as long as they do,
I want to be able to play with the mail routing myself.  
I want to be able to say "route me around system X, please."
Or, "go through systems a and b, please."  Right now I do routing the hard way:
first, I see what the mail message (or article) has for a path - then
I try pathalias.  I also check whether the system is on Arpanet...  all
by hand.
It would be nice to have this done automatically - IF I could tell the
mailer, "no, please don't send it that way - it bounced the last time."
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