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)?