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From: parmelee@wayback.cs.cornell.edu (Larry Parmelee)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: protocols, gateways, et al.
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Date: 7 Jun 89 13:44:29 GMT
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(Rahul Dhesi)
>   <jklsjdf><<<Jkldf>>!%%%!x@b#&*()$jsdfkjljsd;fadf&*7987904klj;l;.BITNET
>should be a valid address.  It isn't, and that's half the problem.

(Bill Wisner)
> Pfthhht. 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.

(Eliot Lear)
> Well....  It is the responsibility of GATEWAYS to convert between
> protocols and standards.

Exactly right.  Rahul's address, correctly converted to internet format,
might look something like this:

"<jklsjdf><<<Jkldf>>!%%%!x@b#&*()$jsdfkjljsd;fadf&*7987904klj;l;.BITNET"@g.w

where "g.w" had better be a legal internet domain name, and a host
capable of doing something intelligent with the gibberish in quotes.
And before you ask, if needed, you can embed a quote within a quoted
string:  "abc\"def"   and a backslash too:   "ghi\\jkl"

-Larry Parmelee