On Tue, 25 Feb 1997 23:43:56 EST A. Harry Williams said:
>On Tue, 25 Feb 1997 23:26:31 -0500 Stan Ryckman said:
   .... stuff deleted ...
>>I think the "solution" may be to get the sendmail default raised from
>>17, a number which once probably made sense but now probably does
>>not -- but unfortunately this is probably a slow process.
>and complete with some maintainers of sendmail systems that are
>either limited in experience of doing this type of function, or
>are hostile to making such a change.
>
  ... yes indeed .... I am owner of list that is peered, and
  routinely have the "too many hops" message.  I will use
  the short header option when necessary, but usually try to
  contact the postmasters about raising the hop count.  This
  has had extremly limited success.  Sometimes they don't know
  how, or are hostile to any such change.  Usually I hear
  nothing from them.  Occasionally, they will do it though.

  considering how odd some mailers behave (or are configured to
  behave), I hesitate to remove any headers that might cause
  problems with replies and such.  -- Joe Kelley
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