lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) (06/06/89)
Bill Wisner writes: > Pfthhht. And then he writes: > If that address is strictly limited to within BITNET, fine. But > if BITNET wants to communicate with the rest of the world, it must respect > the rest of the world's conventions. Well.... It is the responsibility of GATEWAYS to convert between protocols and standards. Hard as it might be, it is almost (if not) always possible to make such conversions. One of the great things about sendmail is that it eases protocol conversions.
parmelee@wayback.cs.cornell.edu (Larry Parmelee) (06/07/89)
(Rahul Dhesi) > <jklsjdf><<<Jkldf>>!%%%!x@b#&*()$jsdfkjljsd;fadf&*7987904klj;l;.BITNET >should be a valid address. It isn't, and that's half the problem. (Bill Wisner) > Pfthhht. If that address is strictly limited to within BITNET, fine. But > if BITNET wants to communicate with the rest of the world, it must respect > the rest of the world's conventions. (Eliot Lear) > Well.... It is the responsibility of GATEWAYS to convert between > protocols and standards. Exactly right. Rahul's address, correctly converted to internet format, might look something like this: "<jklsjdf><<<Jkldf>>!%%%!x@b#&*()$jsdfkjljsd;fadf&*7987904klj;l;.BITNET"@g.w where "g.w" had better be a legal internet domain name, and a host capable of doing something intelligent with the gibberish in quotes. And before you ask, if needed, you can embed a quote within a quoted string: "abc\"def" and a backslash too: "ghi\\jkl" -Larry Parmelee