Rich $alz is still alive ??!!!??!! (Was: Re: What should a new UUCP protocol do?)

[Andy Sherman]

In article <1990Nov24.163906.19793 at chinet.chi.il.us> laird at chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal) writes:
>I bet that it means that the aforementioned Mr. Salz is to busy to sort
>out getting a bounced message home, and that he trusts his Internet host
>to get it to its proper place.  You lose out when he tries to respond
>only to find that you'd mailed him down a one-way street.  att, for
>example, is listed by pitt in the u.usa.pa maps as "the world's biggest
>leaf node" because they normally deny forwarding privileges to mail.>

Umm, I must be stupid, or something.  Yes, we are the world's biggest
leaf node.  But how can we be responsible for unreplyable mail?  (I
won't argue newspaths here).  We don't forward.  Period.  Therefore,
any message that is unreplyable due to att being in the path could
not have been sent in the first place.  Call us anti-social if you
like, just don't call us late to dinner.




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