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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: BITNET --> UUCP mail... suggestions?
Keywords: BITNET, UUCP, Mail, Boinnnnng!
Message-ID: <5496@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 16 Sep 88 04:53:54 GMT
References: <317@flatline.UUCP> <329@uncle.UUCP> <6472@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner)
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Sending mail from UUCP sites to Bitnet sites, you have to go through a 
UUCP backbone site (I don't know which one you are using), e.g. uunet.uu.net,
or cunyvm.cuny.edu which isn't a backbone site (I think) but is on bitnet.

Similarily, sending mail the other way round, you have to bounce it off a
machine which knows another machine on UUCPnet. Since I am not informed
about the East Coast links, you may just try the following:

	user%host.bitnet@backbone.uucp
		from dasys1.uucp, where "backbone" stands for the backbone
		site you use to bounce off your mail.

	user%host.uucp%uunet.uu.net@cunyvm.bitnet
		from Bitnet sites. CUNYVM should know about uunet.uu.net
		which in turn knows about the UUCP sites. Now, I have no idea
		how addresses from Bitnet hosts look like, but this address
		should work if you transform it suitably. Just replying may
		not work is the host is just getting a return path without
		the bitnet <=> uucp gateway. The UUCP person may include a
		valid Reply-To field in the messages, that should help.

Well, this is for this particular case, so you may have to modify that
for other areas.

Good luck,
-- 
Juergen "Gandalf" Wagner,		   gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA