Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!dell!mikeh
From: mikeh@dell.dell.com (Mike Hammel)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I get from here to there? (E-mail to various nets)
Keywords: Usenet UUCP InterNet BitNet and other Nets
Message-ID: <2573@dell.dell.com>
Date: 7 Aug 89 18:13:03 GMT
References: <1676@sactoh0>
Reply-To: mikeh@dell.UUCP (Mike Hammel, )
Organization: Dell Computer Corp., Austin, Tx.
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In article <1676@sactoh0> mholtz@sactoh0 (Mark A. Holtz) writes:
:
>it). I currently reside at sactoh0, a UUCP site. How can I e-mail a
>message to someone whose address lies at another net, ie Bitnet.
>How do I mail E-mail from one net to another?

This seemed to me a question of general interest so I'm replying back to 
the group.  Hope nobody minds.

I asked this same question, but in reverse, when I was leaving a Bitnet site
to work in the "real" world. I got the following addresses:

From UUCP to Bitnet:
	node.bitnet!userid	where node is the Bitnet node and userid is
				the userid on that Bitnet node
or
	psuvax1!node.bitnet!userid	same as above, but specifically states
					a gateway system generally known 
					within UUCP.  I don't know if psuvax1
					is still functioning as a gateway for
					UUCP/Bitnet mail.

From Bitnet to UUCP:
	node!userid@mapped_node.UUCP	where node is the UUCP node and       
					mapped_node is a UUCP node in the UUCP
					maps that will know about the first
					node, if that makes sense. UUCP at the
					end of the address is the domain name
					recognized by Bitnet sites, so they
					know where to send the mail first.

Note that these are very specific cases.  They work from UUCP to Bitnet and 
from Bitnet to UUCP respectively.  A more general case to get from UUCP to
another network would be:
        nodespecific@network.domain	where nodespecific is the information
					required for routing within that other
					network, network is the network name
					recognized by UUCP and domain is the
					domain that network would be in.

This explanation is a bit rough, to say the least.  Hopefully there will be
some better answers.

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