...
 MT> I'm sure it is just your choice of semantics, but this 
 MT> still grates like fingernails on the chalkboard to me.  
 MT> If I had a batch file that said:

 MT> ren *.* *.tmp
 MT> del *.tmp

 MT> and I found out that the second step only deleted that 
 MT> files that were already named *.tmp before invoking the 
 MT> batch and not the ones that were just renamed *.tmp 
 MT> during the batch, then I would consider that a 
 MT> =failure= to process in a top-down manner.  From my 
 MT> perspective, the fact that subsequent statements will 
 MT> touch the same mail multiple times if it still meets 
 MT> the criteria of each step is =more thorough= top-down 
 MT> than you're hoping for. :)

Then you are in favor of the line

SEND NORMAL NOARC 

is a NO-OP in the route.cfg file....

In my opinion, that is stupid.  I don't agree with your analogy as being equivalent.

I believe squish documentation states that the FIRST line found that
matches is what is executed and that's it....  

Any way....  I probably should have dropped this subject instead of replying.

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41

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