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route the message should take as a sequence of
hostnames.
It is called a source route because the route is determined at
the source of the message rather than at each stage as is now
more common. The most common kind of source route is a
UUCP"@foo:@bar:fred@baz", is seldom seen because most systems
which understand RFC 822 also perform automatic routing based
on the destination hostname. A third, intermediate, form is