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