Subject: Failure of some sites to receive ietf-krb-wg mail

From: "Douglas E. Engert" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:23:32 -0600

I am again receiving bounced mail form some sites where the hopcount is set to low. 

If you name is in the cc list, you may be missing messages from the ietf-krb-wg
list (as well as other mail lists.) Please contact you mail server administrator 
to request that the max hopcount be increased to 25.   

These bounced mail messages are generated at Microsoft, where their mail systems 
take 7 hops to deliver the mail to the majordomo at anl.gov, which adds
7 or so hops before sending it on. a few extra hops are added by the receiving
systems pushing the hopcount in a message to more then 17 which appears to be 
an old default.  

In these days of spam filters at the sender, receiver and mail list sites 
the default of 17 is just to low a value of 25 is more realistic.    

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 Douglas E. Engert  <[email-masked]>
 Argonne National Laboratory
 9700 South Cass Avenue
 Argonne, Illinois  60439 
 (630) 252-5444