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From: SPOCK%CALSTATE.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Commander Spock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: RE:
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Date: 21 Jan 89 02:35:01 GMT
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You have a couple things wrong.  For one thing, ARPANET is practically every-
thing that you use when sending mail.  All networks (or most of them) utilize
ARPANET for simple E-mail letters.  UUCP is a file transfer program that allows
UNIX machines to connect and transfer programs and files, thereby, giving
the simulation that files are in fact being transferred.  Please note that
with ARPANET, mail is transferred almost instantly, whereas UUCP travels at
scheduled times.  USENET is a sort of BBS (or digest; call it what you will)
that runs as a subset of UUCP.  So, the first thing to do is find out from
your friend that his address is on FIDONET and then see what local systems
are nearby.  If you are using BITNET, any system is consdered a "gateway" to
branch to other networks.  With UUCP, you MUST link to a node that can bridge
the networking gap.  With ARPANET, any node or site address will be instantly
transferred.  If I'm not mistaken, you can specify the node with a ".FIDO" or
".FID" suffix.  The version of FIDONET that I know of is NOT capable of
large network mailings.  Hope this helps.

Spock          INTERNET: cbds080@ccs.csuscc.calstate.edu
                         cbds080@c730.csupom.calstate.edu
                 BITNET: spock@calstate.BITNET

P.S.  Please note that INTERNET addresses are the same as ARPANET addresses
      since INTERNET is a subset of ARPANET.