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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Routing mail through Digital's sites
Keywords: they're both right, er, wrong, er ...
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Date: 23 Jul 88 20:12:18 GMT
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In article <4166@umix.cc.umich.edu> honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
>david, i don't buy brian's argument either.  saying that routing is
>exclusively a user agent issue is like saying that the ua should do mx
>queries.

The problem is that pathalias believes what you tell it. A small amount of
bad data can create a large amount of havoc. Until the data is centrally
controlled, with someone responsible for errors, then I don't want my mta's
doing any form of routing unless I explicitly ask them to do it for me.

If I could be confident that the contents of mod.maps was mostly true, I
would be happy to let the mta take over almost all routing.