From: utzoo!decvax!goutal Newsgroups: net.mail Title: Re: Bogus Network paths Article-I.D.: decvax.432 Posted: Wed Mar 16 09:12:02 1983 Received: Wed Mar 23 00:01:26 1983 References: mitccc.449 Considering the most recent articles in this group by uw-beaverton!jim and mitccc!postmaster (John Woods), I am led to suggest that *only* people whose machines are on more than one network and gate things across should intercept any punctuation other than "!". In a msg to Jim (which may or may not make it), I further suggested that such gateways themselves ought to be able to translate things like uucp-host!user@arpa-host <--> uucp-host!arpa-host!user such that all the rest of us can just use plain old uucp-style addresses and paths, and leave translation up to those who ought to know. If the uucp net someday all migrates to using NBS addresses or Internet addresses or something, then we can all do that. Till then, how bout if all use uucp addresses. Period. Will that work (if the more eager among us back off a bit)?