On Thu, 7 Sep 1995 19:25:15 +0200 Eric Thomas said: >On Thu, 7 Sep 1995 11:31:35 CDT Marty Hoag <[log in to unmask]> said: > >>1. What is a good setting for the number of hops allowed? I think >> sendmail defaults to 17 these days. > > >All in all the problem with SHORTHDR is that the people who wanted it >killed here and now were VERY vocal (many threatened to stop paying for >the software if this change wasn't made), whereas people who did not want >the change hardly said anything. So, we thought no one really minded the >change, given the existence of "Default-Options=" and all that, and acted >accordingly. If we'd known there were many people opposed to the change, >we could have added an option to save the "unspecified" state of the >header flag and all sorts of other things, but now it's too late because >the one-way conversion has been made. I have to say that I wasn't vocal because I didn't realize that I was going to be bit so heavily by the max hop count because of it. I was in favor of adding the mime headers as Roger points out, and beyond that I didn't care. Since I'm getting LOTS and LOTS of the hop count error, I now care. > > Eric /ahw