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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP gatewaying to CSNET, BITNET, ARPANet, etc.
Message-ID: <7025@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 88 22:16:39 GMT
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In article <306@mergvax.UUCP> rkxyv@mergvax.UUCP (Robert Kedoin) writes:
>If anyone knows of better ways to get to these networks I'd be more
>than happy to hear them.

OK, since you asked, here's how things look from the UUCP world, if
you're operating without benefit of smail:

>ARPANET:
>	send	uunet!node.domain.xxx.ARPA!userid

There's no such thing as a subdomain of .ARPA.  You probably meant to
say something more like "uunet!node.sub.dom.ain!userid".  Iff the
machine really is on the ARPAnet proper, then ".sub.dom.ain" will be
".ARPA".

>	receive	userid%nodename.UUCP@seismo.gss.gov

Not only is it "seismo.Css.gov", but it's no longer doing what you
want it to do.  If your domain isn't in the UUCP maps, and/or nobody
is a mail exchanger (MX) for you, would more properly be addressed as
"userid%nodename.uucp@uunet.uu.net".

>BITNET:
>	send	uunet!bitnet-node.BITNET!userid

Right!

>	receive	userid%nodename.uucp@seismo.css.gov.BITNET

Again, say something more like "userid%nodename.uucp@uunet.uu.net",
but this entirely depends upon whether the user agent and mailer on
the Bitnet end can handle domains.

>			OR
>	send	...!psuvax1!bitnet-node.BITNET!userid

This is your best bet.

>	receive	userid%nodename.uucp@psuvax1.psu.{bitnet,psu.edu,uucp}

Again, this depends upon the sanity of the mail software on the Bitnet
machine.  The closest you could get might be
"userid%nodename.uucp@psuvax1", because psuvax1 is the way that
machine looks from the Bitnet side of things.

>CSNET: {---- never tried ----}
>	send	uunet!relay.cs.net!csnet-node!user-id
>	receive	userid$nodename@relay.cs.net

The CSnet relay systems are part of the ARPA-Internet domain scheme,
and you can use the same conventions as described above.
-=-
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
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