Been there, done that (I wrote my own driver for the bisync card, so I didn’t have the latter problem, just had to tame a barely documented Motorola chip “helping” with the already weird DLE handling). I’d still prefer doing that again over today’s spam problem.
(There actually is a teachable lesson here, which is about getting rid of gateways. But that’s for another day…) Grüße, Carsten > On Feb 21, 2019, at 00:59, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:22:51 +0000, Matthew Black said: >> Have you ever created a sendmail.cf without using M4? > > Sendmail 5.6mumble or so, for a machine that was on UUCP, Arpa/Milnet, and > Bitnet and gatewayed between them. Bitnet was particularly ugly because (a) > EBCDIC and (b) no way to represent a null line in NJE. Bonus points for the > bisync interface card that claimed to do DLE stuffing for SDLC but didn't... > > And of course, approaching any address that had all 3 of %, ! and @ in them > was loads of fun because the semantics depended on which interface they > came in on... > >
