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From: sjl@ukc.ac.uk (S.J.Leviseur)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mailing to the UK
Message-ID: <5692@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Oct 88 10:26:19 GMT
References: <2181@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: sjl@ukc.ac.uk (S.J.Leviseur)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <2181@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> brantley@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (brantley) writes:
>Hi!
>
>A friend and I are trying to reach a machine in London, and while
>the address we are using doesn't bounce back, we aren't getting any
>replies.
>
>The machine we are trying to reach is: vaxa.cc.imperial.ac.uk, this
>is a Vax 8600 at Imperial College running under Vax-VMS (it might also
>be on bitnet).
>
>The address we are currently using is:
>     umeed04%vaxa.cc.imperial.ac.uk@cuny.edu.
>

My guess is that mail will go inbound from cuny via ucl-cs. However that is
a one way gate unless the user is authorised by ucl-cs. This means they
cannot reply to you through it unless they have filled in the forms at UCL.

An alternative route is via ukc, but we explicitly blackhole mail for that
site for funding reasons.

That leaves bitnet, you could probably route via ukacrl and have a twoway
route.

	sean