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In article <BOB.90Aug27182122@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>In article <9RE5N-9@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>   Just make sure your mail-based server can recognise a NZIC
>   [Non-Zero Incremental Cost] link (easy, it's got a "!" in it) and
>   refuses to send if it's not terminal.
>(2) Among the other features of the Domain Name System is its
>assistance in hiding such transport-level properties from
>applications.

Most of the DNS is pure win. You've identified one place where it's a problem:
it prevents a user from finding out such properties if that's needed. If the
application had that information available, then it could make an intelligent
decision about whether or not to use such a link.

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