DC>> I think part of the confusion is between Netmail and E-mail.
 DC>> It's been some time since I used it, but I know there's a
 DC>> kludge to send an I-mail starting from a Netmail message.

 NB> Yes, there's some other* kludge for sending Internet email
 NB> through the netmail, but that involved having Fido gates into
 NB> the Internet, which I don't think* is the case any more, now

yes it is... my system is one such gate... your address thru my gateway is
nancy.backus{at}323-120.wpusa.dynip.com IIRC ;)

 NB> that many bbs's have their own way onto the Inet.  There's
 NB> also a kludge for when the email addy is too long to put in
 NB> the To: line in the regular header,

yes, the "old" To: UUCP kludge... its still needed in the cases
of the destination address being too long to fit in the FTN netmail To:
field...

 NB> but I haven't used that
 NB> in years either, since I have email through the same ISP that
 NB> gives me access to the Inet for telnetting.

well, guess what, you have more email addresses than you know about ;)  my
gateway being one of them... and if you go to another system, only the
numbers in the above will change... and if you set up an account /on/ my
system, that's another simular address... albiet one without the numbers
>

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