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From: mikulska@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Margaret Mikulska)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: How to find BITNET node names from a UUCP-only site?
Summary: reachable, but not Bitnet
Keywords: non-Bitnet sites, UUCP, Spain
Message-ID: <5243@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 88 00:09:39 GMT
References: <1102@woton.UUCP>
Sender: nobody@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU
Reply-To: mikulska@beowulf.UUCP (Margaret Mikulska)
Organization: EE/CS Dept. U.C. San Diego
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In article <1102@woton.UUCP> riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
Keywords: 
>We are a UUCP-only site but we regularly exchange mail with BITNET
>sites via gateways.
>
>The case at hand, if anyone's interested, is a node called "ESEVVX"
>purportedly at the Universidad de Sevilla in Spain.  Our gateway claims
>never to have heard of it (nor of "ESEVAX", which struck me as a
>likely spelling if "ESEVVX" was a typo).  We got the "ESEVVX.BITNET"
>address from the university letterhead.  Was somebody in Sevilla
>hallucinating? 
>
Yes. Or was bitten by a tarantula. They are NOT on Bitnet, no matter 
what they say. They may be PLANNING on connecting to Bitnet, but it 
hasn't happened yet.
Remember that the letterheads are chosen from a catalog by an administ-
rative person, and approved by her/his boss. None of them knows 
(usually) much about computer networks. 

They are on a DECNET network. As a matter of fact, I sent you e-mail 
yesterday, but right after I sent it, I managed to reach ESEVVX. 
Unfortunately, I sent it to "postmaster" instead of "system", so I got 
"user unknown", but it was "user unknown at node ESEVVX", so I reached 
the node as such.

(For more gory details send me e-mail. I'll have more details when and 
if "system" will answer me.)


Margaret Mikulska

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, C-014
Institute for Nonlinear Science, R-002

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