[comp.os.vms] Does anybody have a reliable way of addressing mail to JANET sites?

carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (07/10/87)

JANET seems to me to be the converse of the infamous Bight of Benin: lots
of stuff comes out, but nothing goes in.  In particular, the JANET-BITnet
gateway likes to mangle return addresses to the point that they look like
gibberish (typically, the return address is to a mailer-daemon someplace,
and sorting out the stamps placed in the header by various mailers yields
three or four possible return paths, none of which works). My question is
whether somebody out there has a reasonably reliable way of taking a JANET
address (USER@UK.AC.????.????) and converting that to an address that will
get past whatever gateways are necessary.  My machine has access to both
BITnet and ARPAnet (as well as TELENET; if I could figure out the actual
DTE addresses of JANET sites, I could avoid the gateways entirely).  Please
help.