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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Grumpy != grumpy
Message-ID: <36@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 17:51:20 GMT
References: <398@ditka.UUCP> <42300005@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> <25641@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy T. Beagle)
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In article <25641@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:

| You can't guarantee the operation of anyone else's mailer.
| Whether you agree with Rutgers'
| operation or not is of no relevance - they actively reroute.  That
| means that your non-unique hostnames are subject to misdelivery.

One can also look at this from the other direction: there have been,
there are, and there will always be unregistered machines.  You cannot
change this no matter how much you implore everyone to register every
last machine in the entire universe.  Therefore active rerouting is unsafe,
and should not be done.

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