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From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Dynamic vs. passive routing: site rights
Message-ID: <92@volition.dec.com>
Date: 25 Aug 88 23:11:53 GMT
References: <4902@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: DEC Western Research Lab
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Drat.  I'm losing count, and more news is coming in.

In <4902@netnews.upenn.edu> brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Brant Cheikes) writes:
# My question for those who would abolish dynamic routing, is: do you
# assume the right to dictate how my machine's resources will be used?

No.  Do you assume the right to tell me what I mean?  That's the other side
of it.  If something between !'s in a UUCP route does not have dots in it,
it has unambiguous meaning only to the entity named on the left of the
bounding !.

If you want people to use your resources in a certain way and in no other,
then do these things:
	(a) publish your preferences in your UUCP map entry
	(b) block mail along non-published exits from your system
	   except from privileged users / sites.

But please do not assume that you know more about what I mean than I do.
-- 
Paul Vixie
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