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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Compatibility?
Message-ID: <420@baylor.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 14:21:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 16 14:21:20 1985
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> Please don't flame me, I think I'm going to make a reasonable point
> here.
> 
> Does anyone else on the net happen to have a mailer that doesn't
> know what a header is? That only knows one form of routing
> (<next-host>!<feed-this-to-next-host-and-let-him-figure-it-out>)?

Yo! Here I am! Most commercially available systems are in this boat.

Why not just let the gateways do whatever magic they need to get '!'
formats through their nets. Convert it to @sys,@sys,@sys:foo@sys if
you need to, but change it back when it gets to usenet. I just got
a letter from someone on some random net in the uk, and I have no
earthly idea what priority the systems in the way give to '!' and '@'
and '%' and '.'... I don't think there is a way to know.

Then us plebes can maybe get some mail back to people who ask us
questions.
-- 
	Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf)
		UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter
		MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076