On Fri, 25 Aug 1995 12:35:56 -0400 Valdis said:
>On Fri, 25 Aug 1995 11:14:56 CDT, Marty said:
>> of a gateway...  (there, I feel better... ;-).  But if SSW considers them
>> equal why does it have to autoregister them anyway?  Why not use the
>> same entry?  It seems SSW is being inconsistent here too...
>...
>But seriously, anybody know why this product feels a need to do this
>bletcherous thing?
 
   I am not sure about SoftSwitch but having just been exposed to another
mail gateway product (MailHub from Control Data Systems) I think I know.
These products are gateways.  As such, they try (or should try) to make
things look as normal as possible on each side of the gateway.  So if
the user on the other side of SoftSwitch is using some micro mail product
(eg. CCMail - however that is typed) these gateways try to present outside
addresses just as they do any other address on the CCMAIL system.  And while
we may be very comfortable with  [log in to unmask]  that looks really
strange to the user used to typing "bill" or "hilary" in the address.  ;-)
 
   Anyway, I can see why the technique might be used.  I think the problem
here is that SoftSwitch (from what I have heard) is notoriously unresponsive
to user needs and problems.  Are they still owned by IBM?  (I think Lotus
bought SoftSwitch some time ago and now IBM bought Lotus so... ;-).
 
       Marty
 
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>/Valdis