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From: PHIL@UIUCVMD.BITNET (Phil Howard)
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Subject: secondary gateways
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Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 16:46:07 EST
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I am planning the design of a new type of bulletin board system for IBM
VM/CMS systems.  Due to the inherent limitations of this operating system
to 8 characters for userids, and the fact that I would like to have mail
for this bbs directed to topics as userids, I need to bypass this limit.
The way I best see to do this is to create a psuedo-node and run a "gateway"
to it somehow.  One problem I see with this is that mail is gatewayed into
BITNET, all that remains normally is the RFC822 header.  Sometimes this
does not indicate the real destination that SMTP really knew.  I am
inquiring into the possibilities of getting mail from the gateway in BSMTP
envelopes.  What I would like to know is if there are any alternative ways
to get this information (the real destination) and if any new standards
development is planning to address this.

Thanks.           /Phil/ka9wgn