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[Grant DeLorean]

andys at ulysses.att.com (Andy Sherman) writes:

> 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.

 I guess I should go look at the maps before speaking, but why have
yourself listed in the maps as connecting to other systems with a
full map entry if you don't want mail mapped through you? Since the
whole purpose of a map entry is to allow for shortest/best route
mapping it seems to defeat the purpose. If you don't want to forward
mail to other sites, either don't be fully mapped or don't list the
systems whom you don't want to forward mail to in your map entry.
There is no need to list everyone you talk to if you won't forward
to them... Having just locked horns with a <expletive deleted>
from MCI over this very issue (he got mad becuase mail was being
routed through him becuase he has/had uunet in his map entry
as a DEMAND site) I can't keep quite just now...


 Grant DeLorean 
grant at bluemoon  ...osu-cis!n8emr!bluemoon!grant  ...towers!bluemoon!grant
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