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From: scott@utcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: help
Message-ID: <1986Nov22.003549.17892@utcs.uucp>
Date: Sat, 22-Nov-86 00:35:49 EST
Article-I.D.: utcs.1986Nov22.003549.17892
Posted: Sat Nov 22 00:35:49 1986
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References: <606@mtunf.UUCP> <2338@psuvax1.UUCP>
Reply-To: scott@utcs.UUCP (Scott Campbell)
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In article <2338@psuvax1.UUCP> ehrlich@psuvax1.UUCP (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
>
>The machine psuvax1 is on both USENET and BITNET.  It can be used as a gateway
>as follows:
>
>To send from USENET to BITNET use an address like:
>
>		...!psuvax1!host.BITNET!usename
>
>To send from BITNET to USENET something like the following might work:
>
>		NOTE username%host.uucp at psuvax1
>
>There is no warranty expressed or implied for the BITNET to USENET address.
>It would appear that some BITNET mailers have a warped sense of what a valid
>address is and what is allowed to appear in a mail header.

You are quite right there. NOTE is an ibm command and will not accept
username%host.uucp at psuvax1 because username%host.uucp will almost for
sure be greater than 8 characters which is the longest userid that exists
on any machine (at least to the thinking of ibm who think they ARE everybody)

If you don't have a mailer on your bitnet site you have to manually put
BSMTP headers (I think that stands for Batch Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
on your mail and PUNCH it to MAILER at PSUVAX1. There are also execs to do
this for you (at least on IBM machines). I have one called CROSSNET EXEC
that I got from somewhere or other but I think it is only good for ARPA
CSNET MAILNET CCNET and MFENET addresses (ie it will send to the gateways
for those - not psuvax1) however it can probably be converted to uucp
addresses easily... (I havent bothered since we have a mailer) If anyone
wants this I can send it to them or they can get it off of one of the
servers on bitnet (NETSERV?)... maybe the latest version of crossnetexec
handles uucp - i dont know...

At least PSUVAX1 isn't as picky about the headers as WISCVM.... :-)
			scott
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