Your message dated: Wed, 07 May 1997 21:51:10 +0200 > In the interest of avoiding what could otherwise turn into a very long > winded argument, could you please post a concise, TECHNICAL description > of why you feel AOL needs to reject messages with a source route, as > opposed to ignoring the source route per RFC1123, and we will then have a > technical discussion, leaving angels and philosophers to discuss things > in their respective areas of competence? It's an operational issue of protecting the very existance of the AOL mail system as a whole, and that's about all I can or will say on the subject. Suffice it to say that source routed envelope addresses have greatly outlived their usefulness, and it's long past time for them to permanently go away. -- Brad Knowles MIME/PGP: [log in to unmask] Senior Unix Administrator <http://www.his.com/~brad/> <http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE38CCEF1>