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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: routing in the user agent
Message-ID: <2589@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 04:51:48 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 29 04:51:48 1987
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I completely agree that users should be given the option to override
paths; pathalias/smail are not infallible.  But I do question putting
routing information into *the headers* and I question having the *UA*
do the routing.

In all the cases cited so far "routing by hand" is used as a last
resort, so why should the uninitiated have to see the way routed are
crazy-glued together?  Furthermore if the UA uses the same data that
the DA uses to produce its routes, you gain nothing.  So you're left
doing the routing by hand, in which case it's simple to format your
own messages and hand them to the DA directly (with a good route).