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From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear)
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Subject: protocols, gateways, et al.
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Date: 5 Jun 89 21:03:39 GMT
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To: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU

Bill Wisner writes:
> Pfthhht.

And then he writes:

> If that address is strictly limited to within BITNET, fine. But
> if BITNET wants to communicate with the rest of the world, it must respect
> the rest of the world's conventions.

Well....  It is the responsibility of GATEWAYS to convert between
protocols and standards.  Hard as it might be, it is almost (if not)
always possible to make such conversions.  One of the great things
about sendmail is that it eases protocol conversions.