On Sat, 1 Apr 1995 01:42:29 +0200 Eric said:
>Peers have always  used long headers internally, so this  is hardly a new
>problem.
 
The new part, of course, is that these long internal headers will now be
visible to end-user systems by default, so peer linkages that have been
working fine now start creating delivery problems.  Oh well, it was time
to redesign/re-evaluate the peering anyway.
 
>         The  default sendmail hop limit  of 16 is just  plain and simple
>broken.  It breaks  even some  sendmail-based redistribution  lists. With
>people reading  their mail  on a  PC-based mail  system sitting  behind a
>firewall it doesn't take all that long to accumulate 16 hops.
 
I agree with all this part completely.  I wouldn't have brought it up myself
had Bill's message hit me after a bout of handling hop-count bounces.
Sorry to have bothered everyone.
 
--Mark