On Jan 27 1995, Rod Speed wrote to Bob Lawrence:

 RS> In fact netmail in QWK is even more of a monster kludge than 
 RS> it is in PKT. There is nowhere to put the destination at all. 
 RS> Your To: style is just ONE approach thats used in QWKs. And 
 RS> even that is fucked too. Classic kludge.

It's even worse than that, because we now use the same kludge in a
"proper" fido netmail area to send a message to an internet
address via UUCP.

I recently had to help someone out after his sysop completely flubbed it,
and this was a bbs with a slip line, ie the internet gateway was local and
the sysop should have known better.

I had to think back to my days of qwk messaging, but I finally figured that
he needed _two_ kludges, one to get netmail through the qwk tosser to UUCP,
and one to get the internet mail tosser to address it correctly to the
internet address.  His first two lines looked like this:

     To: 3:xxx/xxx
     To: aname{at}whatever.com.au

It worked, but I have to wonder how reliable it is.  Despite the fact that
we are always told to leave a blank line after the "To: 3:..." it
didn't work when he did.

Regards,
        Chris

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