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Re: Lazy network operators

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Wed Apr 14 05:58:25 2004 
Adrian Chadd wrote:
I wonder how this is going to affect SMTP mail handling as
it stands - for example, how many 'hops' will there be
between this university's mail gateway and, say, MIT's
mail gateway(s)? Will people start playing header rewrite
tricks so MTAs around the world don't bomb out with
"exceeded hop count" ? "Just one hop!" games, a la IP routing in
the final stages of last century, may rear its ugly head again.


Could the MTA�s run something similar to MPLS so they could reduce the hop count and "funnel" the email though instead of storing and forwarding it hop by hop? Maybe some users would then be willing to pay more for the extra complexity and it would also skyrocket job security.

Pete