Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle.ukc.ac.uk!icdoc!tgould!awm From: awm@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Mailing to the UK Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 88 23:06:09 GMT Article-I.D.: gould.AWM.88Oct28000609 References: <6660@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <295@kl-cs.UUCP> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 38 In-reply-to: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk's message of 26 Oct 88 10:58:41 GMT >>The address we are currently using is: >> umeed04%vaxa.cc.imperial.ac.uk@cuny.edu. Not a bad attempt to use the BITNET gateway for free mail to/from the UK. >Seeing as Imperial are failrly big they have probably payed up their >UkNet subscription I don't think the computer centre has an account with UKC, so mail passing through there will dissappear (vaxa.cc is a VMS machine after all). The department of computing does have a UKnet account, see my signature for details. >... so try this address: > ...!mcvax!ukc!umeed04@uk.ac.ic.cc.vaxa >assuming ! have a higher priority than @'s in the uucp world. A safer way of expressing this would be: ...!ukc!uk.ac.ic.cc.vaxa!umeed04 (but it won't work for reasons explained above). UKC is fairly well connected, and known to the backbone sites (correct me if I'm wrong please). >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. I think the US end of the BITNET gateway is at CUNY, hence the original address was almost correct. Try: umeed04%vaxa.cc.ic.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu Hope this helps, Aled Morris systems programmer mail: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk | Department of Computing uucp: ..!ukc!icdoc!awm | Imperial College talk: 01-589-5111x5085 | 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ