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From: CHAA006@vaxa.rhbnc.ac.UK
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: access to UK sites
Message-ID: <8803211450.AA00199@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 16 Mar 88 12:30:46 GMT
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Dave Stevens asked how a user at his site could send e-mail to a user in the
U.K., at UK.AC.LEICESTER.VAX 

In general, to send mail fron an InterNet site to the UK, reverse the order of
the (period-separated) fields in the UK form of the name; thus for the example
he quoted, reverse UK.AC.LEICESTER.VAX to give VAX.LEICESTER.AC.UK 

Not all mailers will understand the address, even in this form.  For example,
strict BitNet implementations which require
<eight-character-user>@<eight-character-site> will not be able to deal with
such an address.  For them, it is necessary to create the mail header 'by
hand', specifying <user>@<reversed-site> as above, and then ship the file to
the real BitNet <mailbox> MAILER@UKACRL 

Another variation which may be tried involved replacing the initial commercial-
at with a per-cent symbol, and suffixing the resulting address with @AC.UK 

All of these methods assume that the preferred route is through the UK BitNet
gateway; if the InterNet gateway at UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS is preferred, the initial
commercial-at may be replaced with a per-cent symbol, and the resulting address
suffixed with @NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK