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From: lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting of explicit paths
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Date: 8 Mar 88 19:57:48 GMT
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There was also a discussion of rerouting bang paths a few months ago.
Then, as now, there seemed to be a consensus that it ought not be done.
But it still is done -- how come?  There are some sites I cannot mail
to, and when the mail is returned, the header shows a routing that
bears no resemblance to the one I requested, and that routing always
went though rutgers.  Since the path I specify is ignored, I can't
seem to avoid rutgers, either.  Very frustrating.  The situation
seems to arise when the site I want to mail to does not have an entry
in the maps, so the only way to get to it is to route through a site
to which it has a local connection.

	Greg Lee, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu