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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: flame on misguided smartness in mailers
Message-ID: <3537@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 17:29:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 10 17:29:04 1984
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Piet Beertema asks:

		>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!
	What the hell do you gain by leaving in the "floyd" hop?????

In this particular case, what I gain is that the mail goes through floyd.
Which was precisely what I wanted.  I wanted to find out whether floyd
was still talking to us.  If I'd just wanted to get the mail to myself (!)
I'd simply have said "mail henry" instead of "mail ihnp4!floyd!utzoo!henry".
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry