Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote in "Re: [PIC] 18F4550 in-circuit serial
> programming circuit":
> 
>>> By the way, I'm fairly sure the culprit is one of your provider's
>>> servers, Olin, since mail usually gets routed straight from the
>>> endpoint source server to the endpoint target server (and then to your
>>> inbox),
>> I'm not sure what you mean with "gets routed straight", but the mail
>> where you wrote the text I quoted above, was first routed 3 times
>> between your client and the MIT list-server, then another 6 times from
>> the MIT list-server until it reached my Exchange mailbox.
> 
> I didn't see those headers, but even though the message you sent to the
> list seemed to have gone through a few hops, it seemed to have touched only
> two networks: skanova.net and mit.edu, so in a sense it was "straight
> routing". You'd think they have a common mail server configuration policy
> on a network (allowing to call a network "one hop" in this context)... but
> maybe not.
That's what I meant. You get a few hops from the source domain, through
to the target domain's MX and whatever comes after it, but there are no
third parties involved, as is the case with IP. In my case it's only one
hop on the source domain (I have a fairly simple mailer setup), and then
you get all the MIT hops.

> BTW, whoever has those problems: gmane.org gets a direct feed (that's
> really only one hop) from MIT. And it had the full 360 character line.
Interesting

>> B.t.w, 80 chars is not *always* enough, I usualy try to keep it within 70
>> or so.
> 
> Have you actually seen 80 char lines truncated?
I usually set it to 72, to allow for the overhead of adding ">" for
quotes, without double wrapping. It's probably not necessary any more
(thunderbird probably auto-fixes that), but other mailers might not.

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