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clewis@eci386.uucp writes:
>  Ignoring Internet,

I think the relevant quote here is approximately:
	"The Internet is not the entire universe, but it is its center."
				--attributed to Greg Woods, I believe.

In other words, "ignoring Internet" is not a very good thing to do.

>  It also appears obvious that anyone giving an explicit bang path
>  (eg: a!b!c!d) may very well know what they're doing, and it shouldn't be
>  touched.

Not so.  A random sampling of 263 !-paths which passed through my
system earlier this month (I picked a few wholly arbitrary "grep"
criteria on /usr/spool/uucp/mail.log) revealed that the average !-path
length is more than twice as long as the average length of a path in
/usr/lib/uucp/paths.  The users do not know what they are doing.
They're guessing, and badly so.

>  Can you just imagine if two rabid-rerouters thought that the best way to
>  site "foo" was thru each other?

The fact that you address the matter as "if" implies that you have
never seen this occur.  Is this so?  I have never seen it occur,
either.  Therefore, in practice, this is no threat.  I have more
trouble with 2 mailers in a single organization which think that
delivery should occur on the "other system."

This is not to say that I agree entirely with GRR (General Rabid
Rerouting).  I prefer only DARR (Domain Absolutist RR), that is,
rightmost domain strip, and only that.  But I can see why others do
it.
--
I think that everyone's brains get scrambled one way or another.
					--Killashandra Ree