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From: clark@mshri.utoronto.ca
Newsgroups: bionet.users.addresses
Subject: Re: Electronic address in Cuba
Message-ID: <9009260154.AA14978@genbank.bio.net>
Date: 26 Sep 90 01:48:44 GMT
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Rob "fill in the blank" Harper writes:

/        We have EARN_NODES on our machine which allows you to
/        lookup nodes on BITNET. Since Steve Clark has already
/        answered for INTERNET here are the results for
/        BITNET/EARN. Just to show that it does work for "exotic"
/       ...
/       [Stuff deleted]

Rob,

        That book I refered to in my earlier message covers _all_ networks,
not just ones that are part of Internet. It covers eastern and exotic places
as well as Europe and the Americas. There is a network in mainland China with
a gateway to Bitnet/EARN in Germany (if memory serves me correctly) for
example. BTW, besides listing the various networks, it lists the addresses
of the gateways on the major networks so that you can get to them. I used
this feature to respond to a message that came from Italy that would bounce
if I just replied to it, or sent the message as if it were regular
Internet. (At least it didn't bounce when I addressed it through the
gateway, so I assume it got to where it was supposed to :^) .) This book
has three indexes, one by network name, one by country, and one by domain
name. I highly recommend it for people who are trying to send stuff around
the world through the networks.


Steve

clark@mshri.utoronto.ca  (Internet)
clark@utoroci            (Netnorth/Bitnet)