From: Bob Stout 

On 10 Dec 2003 Bill.Birrell!2.25.200.0{at}filegate.net wrote:

> There is a problem with the gating, Bob. My stuff seems to get to you
> OK, but the Internet stuff appends a weird Internet style address at the
> end of my name, so that FrontDoor and Gecho no longer recognize it.
> Because of this it does not get shunted to the personal mail folder, so
> it could easily be missed.
>
> Is there a way you can eliminate this anomaly? Stripping off everything
> after the bang(!) and the period between first name and surname would do
> it.

This issue has come up before. The problem is the same as we faced when the
Yahoo groups gateway was active - all Fidonet mail appears on the Internet
side of things to have come from the same person. This screws up quoting
and such on this side of the fence, so the mangled name was added to
identify the sender when the message came from Fidonet. Unfortunately, when
the name gets propagated back across the fence, the additional information
appended messes up your Fidonet mailer.

Janis is in charge of the gateway for coming from the Internet to Fidonet,
and Jon Guthrie handles the private newsgroup on the SNIPPETS server for
traffic going the other way. I'm copying each of them on this message to
see if there's an easy way to address your problem. The goal is simple:
clearly identify each poster on both sides of the gateway without breaking
existing mail handlers. The solution is probably more complicated...

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