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From: scott@utcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Can I send mail to a BITNET site?
Message-ID: <1987Jan24.105207.14659@utcs.uucp>
Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 10:52:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 24 10:52:07 1987
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In article <615@cdx39.UUCP> jc@cdx39.UUCP writes:
>Can someone out there explain to me how I might get mail
>from a machine with only UUCP hookups to another machine
>that is known to be on BITNET?  

There is an official gateway at psuvax1. Try ...!psuvax1!site.bitnet!user

>If it helps, some of our immediate neighbors are ARPAnet
>sites, and we could bounce things through them.  

There is an arpa gateway at wiscvm.wisc.edu (although it leaves something to
be desired)   try: user%site.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu
 
>For that matter, is there a good reference to teach all
>about BITNET to a newcomer?  I keep hearing things about
>it, but so far nothing very factual, and I'm curious.

I really don't know if there is or not... Most of what I know I discovered by
trial and error (easier since I have bitnet access). There is a good article
in the October 1986 issue of the Communications of the ACM about most of the
major networks in the world including BITNET. If you do find a good reference
please let me know about it... 

-- 
  "I'm not paranoid... the world IS out to get me!"                      
                                                                         
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   scott%utcs.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net                                    
     scott@utoronto.bitnet                    Scott J.M. Campbell