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- FSC-0035
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- Transparent Gateways to and from FidoNet <tm>
- Technical Considerations
- FSC-0035
-
- Michael Shiels 22 June 89
-
- Copyright 1989, Michael Shiels. All rights reserved. The right to distribute
- for non-commercial use is granted to the FidoNet Technical Standards Committee,
- provided that no fee is charged. This may be posted on FidoNet electronic BBSs
- which charge no fee for accessing this document. Any and all other reproduction
- or excerpting requires the explicit written consent of the author.
-
-
- Gateways
- --------
-
- Gatewaying between Fidonet and other networks seems to be the latest feature
- which hopefully brings more benefits to the users of each network. But there
- are some real problems with gatewaying and doing "transparent" replies.
- This proposal should allow for almost totally transparent gateways but requires
- the co-operation of BBS software writers to support this following protocol.
-
- Incoming Messages
- -----------------
-
- When a message is entered into fidonet from another network it will be entering
- through one machine (say 1/2). The userid on the other network may not match
- very will with the 2 word 36 character userid on Fidonet. So the following is
- done to store away the proper userid of the sender.
-
- Two (2) lines are added to the message (usually at the top of the text portion
- hidden by the infamous ^A KLUDGE).
-
- ^AREPLYADDR .....\r
-
- which signifies the FULL userid of the person on the other network. The first
- 36 characters or the full userid if less than 36 characters long, are stored
- in the FROM field of the message header. When replies are done they use a
- second line of the following form.
-
- ^REPLYTO zone:net/node firstname lastname
-
- which is used to signify the "userid" which mail destined to this other network
- must be sent to and on which machine that userids resides. Replies are sent
- to this zone:net/node and userid with the first line of the message being
- changed into 'TO: ....' where .... is the FULL userid from the ^AREPLYADDR
- line.
-
- Should you have constructive correction or criticism, please contact:
-
- Michael Shiels
- FidoNet: 1:250/410 michael.shiels@masnet.fidonet.org
- uucp: ?!tmsoft!masnet!michael.shiels
- Internet: michael.shiels@masnet.uucp
-
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