Subj : Re: Gating issue
To   : Paul Hayton
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Wed Oct 02 2019 11:01 am

Hi Paul,

On 2019-10-02 17:18:08, you wrote to me:

 PH> Interesting, I've had a quick laymans look at the FTSC.ORG docs and
 PH> there's a couple of mentions of the INTL kludge.

 PH> The first seems to talk about it as a tool to help routing mail between
 PH> zones and zone gates. The discussion doc about INTL talks of Usenet as
 PH> being seen as another zone. Netmail as a term is not used in that earlier
 PH> doc from 1987

 PH> The second doc talks explicitly about using INTL as a netmail addressing
 PH> control line. Written in 1995 it talks about a new version of the kludge 
to
 PH> replace INTL, TOPT, FMPT, MSGTO and DOMAIN

Probably only a proposal?

 PH> "It is differentiated  from  the  old  INTL control by the presence of
 PH> the colon ":".  The colon  also makes it fully compliaint with the
 PH> control line convention specified in FTS1." says the doc.

 PH> I just mention this as it looks like the gateway software is not using
 PH> a colon in it's kludge.

 PH> I'm wondering if the intention from the developer was to implement the
 PH> kludge according to the 1980's spec and usage?

 PH> A quick check so far of the config options for the software don't look
 PH> hopeful I can amend anything. Sorry.

Well the message arrived here, was tossed, and I could read it in my editor. So 
between our software atleast, it doesn't seem to cause any problems...

Bye, Wilfred.

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