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	Fri, 5 Jan 1996 20:13:00 +1100 (from kre@munnari.OZ.AU)
To: Alain Zahm <zahm@sophia.telis-sc.fr>
Cc: moore@cs.utk.edu, ietf-drums <drums@cs.utk.edu>,
        Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
Subject: Re: Rep (2) : The conservative and liberal commandment 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "05 Jan 1996 09:06:50 -0000."
             <8208328102540zahm*/S=zahm/OU=sophia/O=TELIS-SC/PRMD=TELIS-SC/ADMD=Atlas/C=FR/@MHS> 
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 20:13:15 +1100
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From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>

    Date:        05 Jan 96 09:06:50+0000
    From:        Alain Zahm <zahm@sophia.telis-sc.fr>
    Message-ID:  <8208328102540zahm*/S=zahm/OU=sophia/O=TELIS-SC/PRMD=TELIS-SC/ADMD=Atlas/C=FR/@MHS>

    It is really not right to say that mostly gateways are responsible of bad
    addresses generation. Mostly bad addresses are due to bad habbits
    (especially in using comments in RFC 822 addresses).

I don't think Keith meant to imply it was a gateway
implementation problem, but a process of gatewaying
problem - ie: difficulties that are unavoidable due
to gateways to networks with other standards.  Eg: Internet
mail doesn't have much of a line length problem (really),
but when gatewayed into bitnet there are all these punch
card image lookalike rules to comply with, which makes life
very difficult.

Don't treat Keith's words as any kind of a slur on those who
implement gateways, most of whom (OK, not all) do a very good
job attempting to reconcile almost irreconcilable differences
bewteen the systems.

kre