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From: dragon@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Brad J. Sagarin)
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Subject: Re: Request for a USENET -> ARPANET gateway
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Date: Mon, 25-Aug-86 00:19:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 25 00:19:00 1986
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In article <2979@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> dragon@mit-eddie.UUCP (Brad J. Sagarin) writes:
>Any advice on the protocal necessary to route mail from a USENET site, through
>a gateway to an ARPA site would be appreciated.  An example 'To:' header line
>would be particularly helpful.

Thanks to the many people who e-mailed me answers.  After fairly extensive
testing, the most reliable gateways seem to be harvard & seismo.  To send mail
from a USENET site to the ARPANET, the following protocal is used:

	ARPA address: foo@bar.edu

	USENET address: ...harvard!bar.edu!foo

The .edu tells the gateway (harvard in this case) to route to the ARPANET.
Other ARPA standard suffixes will also work (.COM, .ARPA, etc.)

An alternate to the above is: ...seismo!bar.edu!foo.  I believe most gateways
use this syntax.

						- Brad
						
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