22 Sep
1995
22 Sep
'95
7:51 p.m.
Well, no, actually. Customers don't care who's fault it is -- as far as they're concerned, it's broken. I had a similar situation impressed on me today: one of our customers wants to send e-mail with MIME attachments to one of his customers who has a CompuServe account. The attachments never make it through the CompuServe e-mail gateway.
What's the chances of assigning them a/n address or two from within a pre-obtained block? From either the Compuserve CIDR or from yours, depending on preference, of course. This can be fixed in the short term; let the remainder of the NANOG bicker about the solution beyond that. - paul