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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Rod Speed
date: 1994-11-13 06:31:00
subject: remaps

PE>> I have taken out all the remaps, which means that people need to
PE>> specify your exact address for mail to get there.  We'll see how
PE>> that goes, and I can change it back if necessary.

RS> The trouble with that approach is that just because you dont see
RS> any which need to be remapped in the short time you watch it, doesnt
RS> prove a damned thing about the occasional person sending netmail who
RS> doesnt use the exact address. By definition netmail from particular
RS> systems is rare, so you dont have any effective way of catching the
RS> duds. They just vanish, the worst possible outcome, it doesnt even
RS> fail safe.

PE> I tell you what, I'll make it remap all unmapped things to my
PE> address and that way it fails safe.  I have this nasty suspicion
PE> that it's going to remap all netmail though, we'll have to see.

So whats the point in not remapping the way you used to do ?

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