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From: PMW1@psuvm.psu.edu (Peter M. Weiss)
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There are two forms of addressing to BITFTP (the userid): Bitnet
(PUCC) and Internet (PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU).  The former reacts to
NJE/RSCS/UREP/Jnet interactive messages for some commands ("help" and
"how are you?" - minus the quotes), and both respond to RFC822 mail
(including the above commands) entered as body of text (the Subject:
line is ignored).

The "how are you?" is useful to ascertain the health and backlog of
the server.


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