On Fri, 20 Oct 89 14:58:33 GMT Eric Thomas said: >When LISTSERV sends a file to the mailer with 'To: JOE@RIGEL', the mailer >sends the file to [log in to unmask] This is a fact > >Christian, be reasonable. You know very well that there is no such thing >as a domain when sending to RSCS, which is why RSCS addresses are not >"qualified". And there is no RSCS gateway to complain about this either >:-) > In other words: outbound FILES go to BITNET, outbound MAIL goes to the LAN, correct? Well I can have several RSCS as well as several MAILERs and only one of each set can be the networking machine. So why not give LISTSERV a MAILER which sends by default to BITNET? I still don't understand how [log in to unmask] can subscribe as 'JOE@RIGEL' - other than with two RSCS which will give a mess anyway. It seems that the default meaning is reversed for inbound and outbound nodenames. If you tell RYERSON to "get yourself a decent MAILER" then you can as well tell whomever "configure your networking software properly". I remember the V*X-clusters sending with the clustername as nodeid swallowing the user's V*X-nodeid and then complaining "you must send to the individual node not the clustername" when getting something back. Oh well ... >Furthermore, it is generally good practice to always fully qualify >addresses. Yep, but need it be .BITNET ? :-). At least it's not a domain specification but an "address-space" and somewhat redundant. And it originates from software which first sees the local network and everything else as special case. > Eric Christian