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From: alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.misc,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Email to BIX??
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.192921.14113@bilver.uucp>
Date: 12 Apr 91 19:29:21 GMT
References: <1991Apr11.154134.272@otago.ac.nz> <568@racerx.UUCP> <1991Apr11.210949.25127@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <1991Apr11.210949.25127@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>  The question of how to mail to BIX is answered in the periodic
>"Inter-Network Mail Guide" posting to comp.mail.misc, which says:
>
>#F internet
>#T bix
>#R user
>#I send to "user@dcibix.das.net"

But this only works if the BIX user is subscribing to dasnet as an
additional service.  Most BIX users do not take this option due to the
extra cost.  If you try to send email to a BIX user who doesn't subscribe
to dasnet, your message will simply be swallowed into a black hole.  It
won't bounce back to you, and the recipient won't get it.

I spent several frustrating weeks trying to send mail to someone I know on
BIX, thinking that the problem was how I routed the message to dasnet (I
have to use the a!b!c!d!e style of address, not the user@site form).
Finally a former BIX administrator posted the reason for my difficulties
in news.newusers.questions.

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