-=> Quoting Mark Lewis to Nancy Backus on 03-23-04  22:34 <=-

 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

 ML> yes it is... my system is one such gate... your address thru my
 ML> gateway is nancy.backus{at}323-120.wpusa.dynip.com IIRC ;)
 
A new sort of gate, then.  :)

 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,

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

Which using your gate looks like it might do.  IIRC, one puts UUCP as
the To: and then puts the actual addy on the first line.  Was/is there
any special punctuation before or around the addy?

 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.

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

Oh, I realized that I have email addresses from just about every bbs I
telnet to, as they have their own access to the internet.  I haven't
used those, though, as just getting to them means that I have access to
my main email addy from my ISP, through which I telnet... :)

Now, using your gateway, does that work then with ANY zone 1 Fidonet
address?  I still have one local BBS that I can access either by dial-up
or by telnet, that has netmail, but as far as I know doesn't offer email
(could be wrong on the latter, as I just haven't tried BBS email for
while now...)  Of course the other problem with that* BBS is that he
doesn't have any offline mail door so anything HAS to be done online
there... :(

ttyl         neb

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