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From: ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: BITNET hosts also internet?
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Date: 11 Jul 90 17:48:03 GMT
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> Bitnet sites that are on the internet also have a domain-ized name that
> is used for sending mail to it thru the internet.  e.g.
>   GITVM1 (bitnet) is vm1.gatech.edu (internet);
>   DRYCAS (bitnet) is DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU (internet),

The problem is that end-users have no way of knowing this.  NYU, for
instance, is very well connected to the Internet (two T1's to two
different regionals), yet we receive tons of mail on our 9600 baud
RSCS connections from other institutions which, like us, are on both
BITnet and the Internet.

At present, at my site, mail sent out on the RSCS link gets the
RSCS/BITnet nodename, while mail sent out on the Internet gets a fully
qualified domain name.  I have been very tempted to have all outgoing
mail sent with the fully qualified domain name which would force
replies from dual BITnet/Internet sites to favor the Internet.  The
dwindling population of BITnet only sites would presumably route the
mail via a BITnet/Internet gateway.  Comments?  No flames please --
this is a topic some people feel is religous, and none of us need a
flame war.  Come to think of it, shouldn't this be on comp.mail.misc:
I've crossposted and directed followups to there.

-Ittai