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From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: BITNET hosts also internet?
Message-ID: <11218@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 11 Jul 90 15:54:29 GMT
References: <1990Jul10.212525.21017@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> 	<11197@hydra.gatech.EDU> <EMV.90Jul11013021@urania.math.lsa.umich.edu>
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In <EMV.90Jul11013021@urania.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>Many (most?) long-haul 'bitnet' links are running RSCS on top of IP,
>and I don't think it's exactly common to keep the dedicated leased
>point to point link around once the VMNET software is going.  So a
>forced route through bitnet doesn't necessarily buy you anything.

hmmm, interesting.  but the "necessarily" is the keyword.... routing
gets weird around Atlanta.  Northbound BITNET from computer center
machines here goes thru GITVM1->UGA, but Internet traffic goes 
gatech.edu->hubcap.clemson.edu (I think... but the point is it goes
thru gatech, currently a VAX 11/780 that tends to wheeze every once
in a while).... I imagine things get similarly weird around Maryland,
NYC, etc.... 

Besides, I thought it was bad form to dynamically reroute someone's
mail if it was anything other than user@host.do.main?  DWIM,D! :)

-- Glenn R. Stone
gs26@prism.gatech.edu
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."