Taking your note's plain language, you appear to be of the rather peculiar
view that specifying standards doesn't matter, since people won't follow
them.
Looping is a classic problem. It has classic solutions. Getting the details
of one specified for this case is, of course, different from getting people
to adopt it, but the start is with specifying it.
If people follow the spec there will be fewer loops, but it won't reduce
the number to zero. Partly it's because not everyone follows the spec,
partly because it is hard to anticipate all of the paths that can lead to
indirect loops a->b->c->a or a->b->c->d->a.
This is hardly limited to mail loops. The DNS specs say not to create
CNAME loops, but indirect loops happen all the time so every resolver that
follows CNAMEs needs loop breaking code.
Regards,
John Levine, jo...@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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