Eric Thomas from L-Soft said: > On Wed, 2 Oct 1996 13:00:54 -0700 Eric Paul-Hus > <[log in to unmask]> > said: > > >But it happens with Banyan other PC LAN addresses in the form > >Myfirstname%MY_full_last_name%my_departmant%my_division%mailhost%our_gat > >[log in to unmask] > > What is the likelihood of a normal user managing to type this address in > the "Send to:" field of his mail program without making a mistake? > I did not say it was the smartest of things. It happens. It pisses you off OK but it does not make it disappear ... And I was looking at X.400/500 addresses in your manual: Names are short and you are something like over the 40 char mark. > >The only stupidity I see in the situation is the 80 char. card inherited > >from the punch card and still used on IBM VM/XA et al ... > > If you want my opinion, the real stupidity when people state without any > knowledge of the subject that everything they want to do and that > LISTSERV cannot do is due to a stupid punch card legacy. I agree I inadvertently(sp?) asked for it there... [...] > > >And, if the LISTSERV is on VM than you need to limit much further > >because a mailed command is "one record" by line so I guess the working > >limit is closer to 60 char. unless there is a trick to use > >"continuation" lines. > > You may not know anything about VM, but there are many people on this > list who do, and I'm afraid you've just made a fool out of yourself :-) (remember when you point a finger to someone there is three pointing at you :-) In the Armed Forces they tought me that there were no dumb candidates just incompetent instructors :-) Now, correct me if I'm wrong: In a far away time when I learned (only a tiny bit) about JCL they told me that the "/" command type of line was limited to an 80 bytes fixed length record. LISTSERV uses that kind of command for remote mail operation. I maybe confusing thing and I welcome the correction. I am just a little concerned about other people that volunteer their time to manage mailing list with some or no computer experience... Maybe that is why we receive private e-mail instead of answers on the list ... I do know that PC/VM relationship tickles some NASPA and CADASPO (or wathever the acronym is) member my sister has been doing system programming for 20 some years and now she is in a LAN environment. In my time, they told me the future was three-tiered computing, working ... togheter ... Do I think VM is a "legacy" OS, yep! So is UNIX System V. But that is off-topic ...