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From: k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger)
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Subject: Re: BITNET hosts also internet?
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Date: 13 Jul 90 11:52:46 GMT
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ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) writes:

>qualified domain name.  I have been very tempted to have all outgoing
>mail sent with the fully qualified domain name which would force
>replies from dual BITnet/Internet sites to favor the Internet.  The
>dwindling population of BITnet only sites would presumably route the
>mail via a BITnet/Internet gateway.  Comments?  No flames please --

I think it's a good idea, but it's possible that you will run into
trouble. There are many BITNET sites around the world which don't
run mailer's. They use sometimes Command-procedures to talk with
BSMTP-Mailers. Those command-procedures are mostly years behind
DOMAIN.NAMES. I remember a case, there a France site was not able
to send to the .de domain. 

Maybe, if we use always the FQDN, we will force such sites to
use more sophisticated software ?

Sincerely,
Klaus Steinberger

Klaus Steinberger               Beschleunigerlabor der TU und LMU Muenchen
Phone: (+49 89)3209 4287        Hochschulgelaende, D-8046 Garching, West Germany
BITNET:  K2@DGABLG5P            Internet: k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de