> 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. Eric's right. AOL should be ignoring source routes, not rejecting them. It's hard to see how ignoring source routes, rather than rejecting them will compromise the health of the AOL email system. You certainly haven't explained why. I participate in the DRUMS Working Group and don't agree that you can use the DRUMS SMTP draft to justify your position, as it continues the RFC 1123 rule for source routes. Obviously there are no network police, but AOL is violating the standards. P.S. - We don't generate source routes here. We do ignore them.