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From: dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Internet -> Sprintmail/Telenet systems
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Date: 29 Oct 90 16:18:40 GMT
References: <3737@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <+RP695G@xds13.ferranti.com> <4246@lib.tmc.edu>
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In article <4246@lib.tmc.edu>, jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes...
^In article <+RP695G@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
^>In article <3737@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
^>> /PN=fullname/ADMD=TELEMAIL/PRMD=private domain/O=organization/C=US
^>>    /@SPRINT.COM
^>Excuse me... would it bother you very much if I ran away screaming in horror
^>at this point?
^ 
^Not me...
^While I generally disagree with various knee-jerk OSI flamers (Phil Karn in
^particular), this X.400 abortion is...shall we say...suboptimal.
^ 
^>(let's see... if I hack smail to recognise sprint.com and convert something
^> like fullname@private_domain.organisation.sprint.com into this..., then my
^> users at least won't have to worry about it...)
^ 
^Talk to the good folks at nasamail.nasa.gov...I believe they did exactly
^that, if only for NASAMAIL.
^-- 

If you are referring to the mailer at Ames (POSTMAN), although the
addressing is easier than through Sprint's gateway, it is extremely
slow (I've seen 12 to 18 HOURS!).  I have implemented shortcuts on the
SPRINTMAIL side (SITE ALIAS), but not on the Internet side.


///Dave Weissman at Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA - Code 543.0/LAN
   SPAN address is   ZAPHOD::DWEISSMAN or SDCDCL::DWEISSMAN
   TCP-IP address is dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov or @zaphod.gsfc.nasa.gov
   Sprintnet's X.400 at (C:USA,A:TELEMAIL,P:GSFC,FN:DAVID,SN:WEISSMAN)

   (This area free of fake, profound sayings by semi-obscure philosophers,
    writers or deep characters from prose you were forced to read in
    high-school and college....especially no KANT, WILDE, or ASIMOV)