Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!gamma!sword!faline!bellcore!texbell!sugar!ficc!uunet!mcvax!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Mailing to the UK Message-ID: <295@kl-cs.UUCP> Date: 26 Oct 88 10:58:41 GMT References: <6660@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Organization: U. of Keele, Staffs. U.K. Lines: 34 From article <6660@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, by kagle@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Jonathan C. Kagle): > In article <2181@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> brantley@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (brantley) writes: >>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 address we are currently using is: >> umeed04%vaxa.cc.imperial.ac.uk@cuny.edu. OK. Seeing as there isn't a followup from a UK'er in sight, here's my idea. The host uk.ac.ic.cc.vaxa (aka uk.ac.imperial.cc.vaxa) exists and accepts mail (I just checked our NRS database). The address starts with uk for JANET sites but most gateways will reverse it for you anyway. The user id umeed04 does exist as I've just mailed it with no error response from the VAX FTP. So its either the gateway that isn't mailing you back with errors or the person you're mailing isn't talking to you. Seeing as Imperial are failrly big they have probably payed up their UkNet subscription so try this address: ...!mcvax!ukc!umeed04@uk.ac.ic.cc.vaxa assuming ! have a higher priority than @'s in the uucp world. If you can get mail onto BITNET then the UK gateway is called UKACRL.BITNET (I think) and then use umeed04@uk.ac.ic.cc.vaxa from their. If you still have no luck then try ...!mcvax!ukc!uknet for help as they are the experts. -- _____ Jonathan Knight, || JANET: jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs / Department of Computer Science || UUCP: ...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan / _ __ University of Keele, Keele, |+------------------------------- (_/ (_) / / Staffordshire. ST5 5BG. U.K. || If in doubt, panic!