[comp.dcom.telecom] User Interfaces

rhyre@cinoss1.att.com (Ralph W. Hyre) (04/02/91)

In article <telecom11.259.2@eecs.nwu.edu> ndallen@contact.uucp (Nigel
Allen) writes:
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 259, Message 2 of 3

> * forwarding a message originally from phil@shl.com (Phil Trubey)

> To reach someone with an Envoy account, send your message with the
> following address in the "To:" field:

>     /ID=envoy_id/S=last_name/G=first_name/I=F/SITE=TELECOM.CANADA/
>     @{internet site [name deleted]}

This is a pretty sad statement for X.400 implementations.  Hasn't
anyone built a reasonable user agent to these ISO beasts?  The
Internet user@hostname convention is pretty straighforward.  Telecom
Canada should follow Compuserve's example and build an Internet
Gateway, rather than forcing the entire load on one US government
facility that happens to translate RFC822 into X.400.

As a user, I won't accept any system that forced me to remember the
arcane X.400 syntax.  Is there a delivery or user agent that works
with the ISO directory stuff? (X.2500?)  I want to be able to use my
'old' user interface {user@organization - which is all the X.400
address really captures anyway.} [Example: Bob.Allen@AT&T]