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From: luner@werewolf.CS.WISC.EDU (David L. Luner)
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Subject: Re: node searching
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Date: 18 Dec 89 17:11:42 GMT
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In article <AFOIANI.89Dec15120857@dante.nmsu.EDU> afoiani@nmsu.EDU (Anthony Foiani) writes:
>
>  I know a userid at LCLARK on BITNET.

Address is incomplete. You need a userid AND a node-name, e.g. CUNYVM or
NMSUVM1

> Is there any "Standard" way to find if they have an internet node name?  
>

You can play around with the name servers (nslookup, for us) but the simplest
way to send mail is to address it to

	user@node.BITNET

and assume that you have a reasonably good mailer and it gets to a gateway.
Alternatively, if you know of a gateway (e.g. CUNYVM, but you didn't hear
it from me) system that is on both networks, usually

	user%node.BITNET@gateway

works. For example,

	user%node.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU


    -- David