On Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:02:22 -0400 Jeffrey Boulier said:
>Hi y'all!
>
>I've been thinking of changing the mail configuration of our campus
>machines such that our listserv box will send mail on to our main mail
>server for delivery.
>
>The only thing I am really concerned about is whether there will be
>problems with the "hop count". We have ours set to thirty, but there are
>still a lot of servers which won't accept mail after it's been through
>seventeen systems or more before reaching the destination [this is to
>prevent mailing loops].
>
>
>And the subsidiary question: Anyone know if hop count is much of a problem
>anymore, especially as the BITNET portion of the LISTSERV backbone is not
>much in use? I haven't seen questions or complaints about it in a very
>long time. Would I be likely to push mail systems over the edge if I just
>forwarded everything to the main hub?
depends on what you define as a problem.  I just don't complain about
it here anymore.  I still have a lot of users I end of setting to
SHORTHDR
>
>                        Yours in LISTSERVness,
>                                --Jeff B.
/ahw