🚀 go-pugleaf

friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
:    It occurs to me that, regrettably, a rewrite of the appropriate mail
: headers is also necessary when transferring mail between the UK and the
: rest of the world, since they have their domains backwards. 

No, No, No!!!!!  Some of the academic network (Janet) uses domains
which happen to be the other way round to the Internet way of doing
things.  The rest of us use Internet domains (or perhaps bang paths if
absolutely necessary).  Life's too short to attempt to do anything with
uk.ac.* addresses except pass them on to our smart host (uknet.ac.uk).
However, we can handle some *.ac.uk addresses (which is the way we see
things).  Likewise for most UK commercial sites.

:    I wouldn't mind rewrite of the headers so much if the rewrites were any
: better than the original FQDN!  Half the time the rewrite is broken. 

Specifically UK academia?  Or in general?

Chris
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