Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: flame on misguided smartness in mailers Message-ID: <3515@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 17:30:10 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.3515 Posted: Fri Feb 3 17:30:10 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Feb-84 17:30:10 EST Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 14 A pox on "smart" mailers that assume they know the network better than I do!!! When I send mail to ihnp4!floyd!utzoo!henry, I want it to go by the path I specify. Ihnp4 has no @#&%*&^^*& business deciding to delete "floyd" from the path! (I know it's not the fault of the people at ihnp4, it's the $@%$#^%$^% Berkeley software they are running...) I would suggest that in future, people who are writing mailers should leave our old, simple, user-friendly exclamation points alone, and concentrate on optimizing paths containing fun things like @'s. When the customer (or some previous router) has specified the path he wants, that's what he should get. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry