vshank%weizmann.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (Henry Nussbacher) (05/23/85)
Steve, I couldn't agree with you more. But when I tried to send a reply to you, I looked at the the header I received: > Received: from MIT-MC by wiscvm.arpa on 05/22/85 at 20:51:13 CDT > Received: from rand-unix.ARPA by MIT-MC.ARPA; 22 May 85 21:36:42 EST > Received: by rand-unix.ARPA; Wed, 22 May 85 18:07:23 pdt > From: Steve Tepper <greep@rand-unix> > Message-Id: <8505230107.AA22510@rand-unix.ARPA> > Date: 22 May 85 18:07:15 PDT (Wed) > To: INFO-NETS@mit-mc, MsgGroup@brl, HEADER-PEOPLE@mit-mc > Subject: Re: Names with spaces My mailer (and I doubt any mailer), can discern who 'rand-unix' is. It could be a node in csnet, it could be a node in mailnet but it happens to be a node in Arpanet. I have found very often that nodenames in Bitnet are the same as nodenames in Arpanet and quite often they are not on the same host. A fully qualified return address to you is 'greep@rand-unix.arpa'. I'm sure mail handlers in other domains other than Arpanet have the same problem and usually the user either hand massages the 'To:' field or the mail gets bounced because rand-unix is undefined. People who live in accelerators shouldn't throw electrons! Hank