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From: ebrill@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Ed Brill)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Access to EARN/BITNET
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Date: 10 Feb 90 03:51:13 GMT
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In article <16106@smunews.UUCP> merlin@smu.edu (David Hayes) writes:
>We have a user who would like to access a machine on "EARN/BITNET".
>I can't find anything on this in the domain name tables.  Please,
>what is this, and how do I connect to it?  Thanks for as quick
>a response as possible,

>David Hayes	School of Engineering	Southern Methodist University
>merlin@smu.edu	uunet!smu!merlin

There are several machines on the Internet that act as gateways between
the Internet and BITNET.  Two examples I can think of are UICVM.UIC.EDU
and CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU.  You can address a message to
user%nodename.bitnet@uicvm.uic.edu 
where the message will be passed from the Internet to BITNET.  At least--
it usually works.



 Ed Brill -- University Computing Services | SysOp, The IU PC-Link Central BBS
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