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From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting considered GOOD
Message-ID: <1988Oct20.121126.1925@ateng.ateng.com>
Date: 20 Oct 88 16:11:25 GMT
References: <1988Oct10.154932.4467@ateng.ateng.com> <296@lakart.UUCP>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough):
>Chip Salzenberg sez:
>>[active routers can cause/allow infinite loops]
>
>I hung a 300 line front end on in
>When it sees a message id for a second time it returns the letter
>to sender, and flags that it has done so.

Return to sender exactly once.  Nice.

Nevertheless, detection of infinite loops is a poor excuse for continuing to
run software (active router) that can *cause* loops.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg             <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip>
A T Engineering             Me?  Speak for my company?  Surely you jest!
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