[HECnet] VMS/RSX Guest accounts

[Thomas DeBellis]

I've had my fill of FAL and DAP for the moment and have turned to some 
other things as sort of a 'break'.  The Tops-10 NFT client breaks on 
certain file names that the 20 sends it, so there is going to be some 
debugging to track that down.  Fortunately, a very patient person gave 
me PPN on one of their 10's.

Right now, I'm working on bringing the Tops-20 mail system a bit more up 
to date with respect to DECnet communications.  These were largely put 
aside when full Internet connectivity happened. Still, the PANDA 
distribution has some bit rot because I know that certain Columbia 
changes for DECnet (to support CCnet) are not there.  I can't imagine 
that we didn't send them to MRC; that would have been unthinkable.

Fortunately, I was able to remember enough to put some of them back so 
that I got SMTP over DECnet working well, again.  It had been suffering 
from about two minute timing delays and now it's instantaneous between 
20's, like I remember.   Oddly enough, I don't remember what else ran 
SMTP over DECnet; I'm certain that RSX and VMS could have done it.  I 
think some VMS site might have.

However, most non-SMTP DECnet hosts on CCnet were running Mail-11, which 
the 20 also groks.  In fact, it can convert Mail-11 addresses to SMTP 
and route over other transports such as PUP, Chaos and TCP/IP as well as 
DECnet.  We did a lot of mail routing for CCnet to the Internet on 
CU20B, back in the day.

Unfortunately, there is some bit rot in some of the Tops-20 Mail-11 
code, so I've got some tinkering to do.  Does anyone have a VMS or RSX 
system that they'd care to give me a guest account on?  It doesn't need 
any special capabilities; I'm just going to be sending mail and looking 
a few raw headers over.