Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!SCFVM!XRHAH From: XRHAH@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Herbert A. Huston) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.infonets Subject: Re: :: addresses Message-ID: <9002071300.AA02256@Think.COM> Date: 7 Feb 90 12:53:09 GMT Sender: owner-info-nets@think.com Reply-To: Info-Nets@Think.Com Lines: 21 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Return-Path: Errors-To: owner-info-nets@Think.COM X-Administrator: Robert L. Krawitz Precedence: bulk Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was owner-info-nets@THINK.COM Comments: To: John C Klensin , Info-Nets@Think.COM, GY945C@GWUVM.ARPA In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 7 Feb 90 02:31:54 EST from >>I was given an address (Bitnet?) in the format pittvms::bearman1. > That is a DECNet format, where 'pittvms' is the computer and 'bearman1' >is the user id. There are two possibilities: > (a) pittvms is actually a BITNET site, in which case you can presumably >transform the address into bearman1@pittvms and go merrily on your way. PITTVMS is a BITNET site. GWUVM is another BITNET site with the VM Network MAILER and presumably RiceMAIL or its equivalent. Therefore, the address shown above should work. > -john klensin > Klensin@INFOODS.MIT.EDU -- Herb Huston, Postmaster and Systems Programmer -- NASA Space and Earth Sciences Computing Center -- Goddard Space Flight Center -- BITNET: XRHAH@SCFVM -- Internet: XRHAH@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV -- SPAN: DFTNIC::HUSTON -- Ameche: (301) 286-7803 -- Snail: Code 631, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA