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From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: active rerouting
Message-ID: <6548@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 18:00:41 GMT
References: <4740@b-tech.UUCP> <4747@b-tech.UUCP> <4748@b-tech.UUCP> <4753@b-tech.UUCP> <1426@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <1426@ficc.uu.net> karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer#) writes:
>...  So shouldn't there be a way to differentiate 
>between hand-routed (hard-routed) mail and machine-routed mail (a Routed-By
>line?), and machine-routed mail could be rerouted by anyone who thought they 
>had a better path, while hard-routed stuff would be hands off, unless 
>undeliverable as addressed.

I would rather see a standard way to explicitly request a site to re-route and
everything else should be left alone if deliverable.
Then news software running on machines that do not have the map data could
pass replies off to the nearest site that knows how to route it. There are
currently ways of making this happen, but they are not standardized and may
depend on interpretation by intermediate sites. 

Les Mikesell