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.