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From: MRC@PANDA.PANDA.COM (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Trying multiple addresses
Message-ID: <11853@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 16 Feb 88 20:25:11 GMT
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Craig -

     I have never said that trying multiple IP addresses must not be
done.  What I did say is that such a strategy is neither required nor
is it necessarily advisable.  This entire discussion got started because
Jordan Hayes declared that a mailer which does not try multiple IP
addresses is "broken" in the sense that a mailer which tosses out the
RFC821 return path information is broken.

     Now, nobody is going to think about fixing the BITNET mailers which
lose the RFC821 return path, and those BITNET guys are going to continue
to insist we should add this ridiculous "Errors-to:" header line in all
our mailers to work around a deficiency in their mailer.

     Thank you, Jordan, for your contribution towards making electronic
mail work better.

-- Mark --
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