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From article <59767@uunet.UU.NET>, by rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams):
>> In article <656@kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes:
>>     
>>     As I understand it, the argument for re-routing and short-circuiting
>>     revolves around the idea that some people feel they know how
>>     to route mail better than the people who started the mail off.
> 
> Does anyone seriously claim that this is not true? Ignore the .1%
> of the people who might know how to route mail. The incredible, overwhelming
> majority of people (there implicity the overwhelming majority of mail)
> have absolutely no idea how to route mail.

I encourage the users at this site not to route any mail.  I tell
them to use the address as it is given by the person they are mailing.
Ideally this is a domain name, if not the users here put .UUCP or
.BITNET on in order to get to the non-domain based networks.

The mailer here knows as many advertised forwarders as I can lay my
hands on.  It then dumps the mail for a domain onto a machine which is
advertised as being a forwarder for that domain.  Simple, reliable
and no need for it to get re-routed.

If the mailer doesn't know about a domain then I get the mail as postmaster
and I then have to go and research where a forwarder for that domain
exists.  That way I get to know how email moves around the world and
I build up a reliable mailer on this machine.

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  ______    JANET :jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs     Jonathan Knight,
    /       BITNET:jonathan%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl Department of Computer Science
   / _   __ other :jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk     University of Keele, Keele,
(_/ (_) / / UUCP  :...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan      Staffordshire.  ST5 5BG.  U.K.