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peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>Here's another idea... how about having mail-based archive servers putting
>a line that says "Class: Junk". Then if you have an expensive link you
>dump junk mail going through it on the floor.

Gack! A good idea! :-)

It would be nice if they did this anyway. If this header is present in
a message that bounces at an smail3 site, the error notification will
not include the message body. This can save a lot of bandwidth. In our
case, it *has* saved a lot of bandwidth - there are a surprising number
of MBAS' that insist on replying to the envelope from address, rather
than to the From: or Reply-To: headers. Despite the fact that we do the
correct transformation in the envelope when gatewaying from uucp to smtp,
downstream sites invariably mung this stuff up, with the result that the
reply gets to the site one hop away from the destination, and then
bounces dues to a !@ precedence disagreement. Ugh!

It would also be possible to reroute mail around expensive links based
on the Class: header. A bit less antisocial than just filing it :-)

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