Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting of explicit paths
Message-ID: <3459@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 02:55:08 GMT
References: <701@l.cc.purdue.edu> <1642@uhccux.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1642@uhccux.UUCP> lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee) writes:
> 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.

Well, simply put, rutgers is one of those places that runs a rerouting
mailer.  In general it works pretty well, and it's convienient dump
just about any kind of garbage address on rutgers and have a 95%+ chance
of it going somewhere useful.  On the other hand I can see how some
pathological cases could cause a lot of frustration.

Of course, if your mail didn't include any paths through rutgers in
the first place, there must be at least one other miscreant in the
works.

If you feel that rutgers is causing your problems, send some non-flamatory
messages to rutgers!postmaster and see if you can bring Mel around to
your way of thinking...


-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|ihnp4|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)