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Article #4399routing in the user agent
From: Peter Honeyman
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1987 06:08
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1987 06:08
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In article <7333@e.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:
>At the moment our problem with it [mush] is that
>
> 1. It wants to do routing ... That feature can be turned
> off, but still it doesn't belong in a User Agent.
it follows from bitter experience that routing in the DA should be of
the most casual style ("dumb" or "first host" routing).
the UA is precisely where routing belongs, where it can be as smart as
you like since the user can inspect and modify the result.
peter
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!super.upenn.edu!eecae!nancy!umix!honey From: honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: routing in the user agent Message-ID: <1631@umix.cc.umich.edu> Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 02:08:41 EDT Article-I.D.: umix.1631 Posted: Sat Sep 26 02:08:41 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 10:31:02 EDT References: <7333@e.ms.uky.edu> Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan Lines: 13