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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.ibm.pc,news.admin
Subject: Re: Help!  Losing my USENET access. . .
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 18:02:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 18:02:26 1987
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In article <624@rlgvax.UUCP> cliff@rlgvax.UUCP (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
>
>Also, I'm aware that there are BITNET/UUCP gateways, but I assume that only
>supports mail, not news.  Is there anyway to feed news through those
>gateways?

You can do news across BITNET ... I've been exchanging news with an
IBM mainframe (not running any sort of Unix on it either ... REALLY!)
in one case and a "pure" Vax cluster running "pure" VMS in another
case.  I've been doing this for a couple of years now.  The main trick
is to (if you can at all possibly arrange it) use some sort of encoding 
between the machines because UREP (and possibly other software on
BITNET) munges certain kinds of characters.  I've used compressed
atob'd batches without too much problem for a long time.  'twont 
work if your neighbor is an IBM machine, but hey ... BITNET is cheaper
than long distance phone calls.

I think SUNY is on the "wrong" side of the CUNYVM-PSUVM link
for us to be able to feed you from here.


>Finally, I suppose I could cajole the SUNY computer center into
>supporting UUCP, but I assume that would be a major effort for them, and
>presumably I'd end up as sysadmin, and there's more hacking and pain. 
>How would I go about doing this?

You said they have a Unix machine ... all it takes is for them to
read some manuals and understand how UUCP works.  That's not terribly
hard to do ... Especially since they could take one of these PD UUCP
clones and hand that out to people to use on their home PC's ... :-)

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