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From: reggers@julian.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Sending mail from bitnet <---> usenet
Message-ID: <180@julian.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 09:42:49 EST
Article-I.D.: julian.180
Posted: Mon Mar  2 09:42:49 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Mar-87 19:36:43 EST
References: <1169@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <1987Mar1.124539.8076@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: reggers@julian.UWO.CDN (Reg Quinton)
Organization: UWO, London Canada
Lines: 28
Keywords: bitnet, usenet, gateways

In article <1987Mar1.124539.8076@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> scott@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Scott Campbell) writes:
>In article <1169@ihlpf.ATT.COM> mohan@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Mohan Palat) writes:
>>	Re.: Sending mail from bitnet <----> usenet
>>
>>	Does anyone know if a user on a bitnet site can send
>>	mail to someone on a usenet site?
>
>To send mail from bitnet to uucp (usenet) requires special software in many
>cases. (A large number of bitnet sites can only talk to other bitnet sites
>unless special gateway software is used... I love IBM :-)

Bitnet users should check at the BITNIC for a information on UUCP gateways,
there are lots of them. Some sites are using us (UWOCC1) as a UUCP gateway
because we support the pathalias maps ... user@host.UUCP is nicer than
specifying a route. 
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