Re: Lazy network operators

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

Adrian Chadd wrote:

> I wonder how this is going to affect SMTP mail handling as
> it stands - for example, how many 'hops' will there be
> between this university's mail gateway and, say, MIT's
> mail gateway(s)? Will people start playing header rewrite
> tricks so MTAs around the world don't bomb out with
> "exceeded hop count" ? "Just one hop!" games, a la IP routing in
> the final stages of last century, may rear its ugly head again.
>
>  
Could the MTA´s run something similar to MPLS so they could reduce the 
hop count and "funnel" the email though instead of storing and 
forwarding it hop by hop? Maybe some users would then be willing to pay 
more for the extra complexity and it would also skyrocket job security.

Pete