On Tue, 4 Jan 1994 16:43:28 +0100 Peter Sylvester
<[log in to unmask]> said:
 
>No, you are also sendining bitnet style addresses to listserv lists even
>if  all  of the  listserv  recipients  are  in  the internet,  and  your
>addresses still appear as .bitnet:
>
>From: Marty Hoag <[log in to unmask]>
>
>is what I received from you.   (in the french service messagerie renater
>we support .BITNET)
 
Peter,
 
Please don't  blame the idiocy of  the people who demanded  that all mail
gatewayed to .FR  by the official BITNET/.FR gateway  be left unconverted
on  Marty or  LISTSERV. A  properly configured  SMTP gateway  escapes all
BITNET addresses as Marty described. If the French think they can control
sendmail.cf on tens of thousands of  hosts and can get away with breaking
the rules, that is their problem. It  is bad enough that people with such
ridiculous beliefs  are in a position  to place demands on  the site that
gateways  the  messages and  later  blame  all  problems on  "punch  card
technology" without giving the impression  that this is a general problem
LISTSERV should solve to bypass this self-inflicted idiocy.
 
  Eric