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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
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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