Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!ai.toronto.edu!lamy
From: lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: Re: UUCP gatewaying to CSNET, BITNET, ARPANet, etc.
Message-ID: <1988Feb17.093617.7538@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, AI group
Date: Wed, 17-Feb-88 09:36:16 EST


UUCP to Bitnet: route the message through psuvax1!foo.bitnet!user

Bitnet to UUCP: likely a no-op.  Many Bitnet mailers follow an older standard
and cannot accept anything but user@site syntax, where site has to be in
their tables and user has to be shorter than 8 characters.

For example, even though this university has a Bitnet gateway that will
forward mail (mailing to lamy@ai.utoronto or lamy@ai.toronto.edu will work
on correctly configured and up to par Bitnet sites), many Bitnet sites simply
cannot reach me that way.

UUCP to Internet:  route through one of many major machines, uunet being
the canonical example.  uunet!ai.toronto.edu!user  should work.

Internet to UUCP: Two possibilities, depending on the mailers (assuming the
machine does not understand user@machine.uucp already). Again using uunet
as the canonical gateway (any other will do).
machine1!machine2!user@uunet.uu.net  should work fine.

Other gateways prefer
user%machine1%machine2@ga.te.way

uunet dislikes the second form.  Any gateway that complies with RFC 976
should handle them (the bigger universities with Usenet access are likely
candidates).

Jean-Francois Lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science           lamy@ai.toronto.edu
University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4              uunet!ai.toronto.edu!lamy