Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vmp!oc
From: oc@vmp.com (Orlan Cannon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Question about From: lines
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.234056.5169@vmp.com>
Date: 2 Jul 90 23:40:56 GMT
References: <14278@ucsd.Edu> <1990Jun12.190023.24311@chinet.chi.il.us> <2998.2688cec8@mccall.com>
Organization: Video Marketing & Publications, Inc., Oradell, NJ
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In article <2998.2688cec8@mccall.com>, tp@mccall.com writes:
> If you want to use a different standard, it looks like you have 3 options:
> 
>     3) Reject the concept of integrating into the internet address scheme.
>     Form an alternate network of uucp sites, with gateways into whatever
>     networks you want to talk with (e.g. the internet) that perform the
>     gatewaying function the way you want. Then all legitimate gateways
>     would have predicatable behavior, and you could develop a set of rules
>     that would always work. Call your network something other than the
>     `uucp mail network', though, and realize you would need gateways for it
>     also, if you had any uucp links from your network to uucp sites that
>     weren't in your network. Good luck getting this to work. On the other
>     hand, you could consider Bitnet to be an example of this, and it seems
>     to have worked at least as well as uucp (non-domain).
 
Or just designate certain machines to be "UUCP-Domain Gateway"
machines.  Then everyone in the UUCP Domain could have an address
such as "joe%bob.uucp@uunet.uu.net".

Then just make sure that uunet (or whatever registered gateway)
would take the Internet addresses and turn them into valid addresses
for whatever neighbor it was passing them to.  And receive addresses
in any format and turn them into valid Internet addresses.  All it
would take is informing the gateway what kind of mail software and
what kind of addressing you are using.

It seems to me that this is the de facto situation and that the
problems are occurring at the exceptions rather than the rule (i.e.
sites that don't talk to their neighbors about the format of the
stuff they intend to pass through them).

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Orlan Cannon                            oc@vmp.com
Video Marketing & Publications, Inc.    (800) 627-4551
Oradell, NJ 07649