Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1699 comp.mail.headers:401 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Eliot Lear's final words aren't about this problem Message-ID: <76@volition.dec.com> Date: 23 Aug 88 03:17:16 GMT References: <34@volition.dec.com> <432@hptsug2.HP.COM> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 24 Dave Taylor felt misused when I said: # > The person you need to yell at for this offense is Dave Taylor. ELM is the # > only user agent I know of that has an option for automatic source routing. # # Yo! Vixie! Yer wrong, mon! Hey, like, you're right. I rather like ELM's source-routing and aliasing features; they're cute, harmless, and occasionally very helpful. I brought up ELM because Eliot seemed confused about what we were talking about -- if he really was upset about source routing in user agents, the thing to yell about is ELM, not Smail. I think he got the point. Sorry to rope you into this. I really don't mind this feature of ELM. But as long as we're talking about where user-name aliasing should go, I agree that there should be a way to do it in the user agent, but I like having it available in the MTA as well -- .forward files are a pain when someone leaves the host and you don't want to keep their account online. -- Paul Vixie Digital Equipment Corporation Work: vixie@dec.com Play: paul@vixie.UUCP Western Research Laboratory uunet!decwrl!vixie uunet!vixie!paul Palo Alto, California, USA +1 415 853 6600 +1 415 864 7013