MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Mark Crispin) (05/22/85)
Calling the Protocol Police! See enclosed message header.
Can't SOMEBODY talk to the AMES people and convince them
that "max.decnet" is not a valid domain name? According to
Hartman, the AMES mail maintainer insists that "max.decnet" is
the right thing to be sending out. I have no idea who this
shadowy person is -- I asked Hartman to put me in touch with this
individual back when it was first announced that they were going
to "upgrade" their mailer to one which had the "official"
Internet mailboxes in "<@ames-vmsb.arpa:hartman@max.decnet>"
format. No luck. The most I heard was a nasty comment to the
effect that I obviously had not read RFC 821/822.
Folks, I think it is time to revise the mailer standards
again. Not change anything (let's have that as an EXPLICIT
instruction for the committee), just to rewrite out the
ambiguities which lead to this sort of lossage.
-- Mark --
Enclosure, for your inspection and amusement:
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Date: 21 May 85 10:00:00 PDT
From: MAX::HARTMAN <hartman@max.decnet>
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To: info-atari <info-atari@su-score>
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-Richard Hartman
max.hartman@ames-vmsb
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-------MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Mark Crispin) (05/22/85)
Ron -
You know that, I know that, but try to convince the AMES people
of that!!!
-- Mark --
-------ron@BRL.ARPA (Ron Natalie) (05/22/85)
"<@ames-vmsb.arpa:hartman@max.decnet>" is no more legal than <hartman@max.decnet>