Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nbires!hao!gatech!amdcad!phil
From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Strange routing!
Message-ID: <20400@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 88 01:17:48 GMT
References: <1671@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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Keywords: smail uucp mail

In article <1671@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
|	As a site fairly close to the bottom of the tree, (almost all of the
|	sites I talk to are leaves), should I do re-routing on the grounds
|	that I probably no more about routing than any of them do?

I think bang style addresses should never be re-routed. What if you
are wrong? Then I'm screwed. If I am wrong, I'll get a bounce and use
the right address. But if you are wrong, there's nothing I can do. 

-- 
I speak for myself, not the company.

Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com