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From: GA.JRG@forsythe.stanford.edu (June Genis)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: BITNET
Message-ID: <3115@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 May 89 15:37:58 GMT
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In article <25098@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>,
ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen) writes:
>INTERNET->BITNET:
>USER@HOST.BITNET is similar to USER@HOST.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
>and USER%HOST.BITNET@UUNET.UU.NET, and perhaps
>@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:USER@HOST.BITNET.
>
>BITNET->INTERNET:  you're on your own, ASK YOUR LOCAL POSTMASTER.

To mail from BITNET to the internet use user%host@INTERBIT.
INTERBIT will be a different host depending on where you are in the
network topology.  That's all taken care of in the routing tables
though.  It should be transparent to the user (except that aome
INTERBITS are running experimental code to do MXing while others
aren't so you can get erratic results for MX attached sites right
now).

/June