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From: VSHANK@weizmann (Henry Nussbacher)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: UK net (cross posted from net.unix)
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Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 06:30:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  8 06:30:40 1986
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Wrong!

The document you are looking at is quite old.  I have a copy from
March 11, 1986 that reads as follows:


> 12 MAIL - EARN TO JANET
>
> The  EARN node must offer some means of constructing mail  according  to
> the RFC822 standard and sending it to userid MAILER at EARN node UKACRL.
> The  Columbia  Mailer  with  an appropriate internet exit  is  one  such
> suitable system. The destination system must offer 'Grey Book' mail.
>
> The 'To:' field must contain:
>
> To: receiver%nrsname@AC.UK
>
> 'receiver' is normally the identification of a recipient which may be  a
> distribution  list,  a  username,  or  a  real  name  depending  on  the
> destination.  'nrsname'  is  a  registered name of a  'Grey  Book'  mail
> system.
>
> Access to a number of destinations is barred for regulatory reasons.


We have been sending mail into UKACRL with an RFC822 envelope (no BSMTP
envelope supported yet) with addresses in the following form:

user%nrsname@AC.UK
user@reversed_nrsname


In actuality, 'AC.UK' is an alias for UKACRL.  'nrsname' is the janet
address in 'UK.AC.....' format.  The 'reversed_nsrname' format also works:
user@node.node.AC.UK
as long as the mail gets to MAILER@UKACRL.

Hank