Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!gregbo From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: Re: BITNET nodes as of Dec, 03 1984 Message-ID: <1051@houxm.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 10:51:25 EST Article-I.D.: houxm.1051 Posted: Sun Dec 30 10:51:25 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 31-Dec-84 03:00:14 EST References: <608@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 34 > From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) > I use ucbvax.UUCP as gateway to BITNET, but each host should choose the > nearest one that works reliably and is legal for them. If you are on > UUCP and you send data to BITNET via ARPANET, you're illegally using the > ARPANET as an intermediate network. I've used ucbvax.{ARPA,UUCP} as a gateway to BITNET, depending on where I was sending the mail from. It appears to work ok. Also, there is a gateway into BITNET at MIT-Multics.ARPA (which sends to MITVMA) which is not 100% reliable but has worked in the past. (I don't think that gateway will do BITNET->ARPA though.) As far as the illegality of using ARPA to send UUCP traffic to BIT- NET, unless the gateway at psuvax1 is fixed, or wiscvm.ARPA gets on USENET (forgive my ignorance, but what OS is wiscvm.ARPA running anyhow), there just won't be a way for UUCP people to reliably get mail to BITNET when the ucbvax.ARPA BITNET gateway shuts down, so they'll just have to route mail between some UUCP<->ARPA gateway and wiscvm.ARPA. > There is also a gateway at psuvax1.UUCP, but it has never worked for me. > (I may be using it wrong.) I've never tried wiscvm.ARPA, I suppose that > wiscvm.ARPA is intended as a gateway between CSNET and BITNET, not for > UUCP use. The accepted method, I believe, is to send to psuvax1!someone%somehost.BITNET, although I've seen some news postings from the other side of psuvax1 that looked like psuvax1!machine%user. At any rate, if I can find the original question I'll forward it to info-nets%mit-oz@mit-mc.ARPA -- all the mail gurus in the worldnet are there and someone will have an answer. -- Baby tie your hair back in a long white bow ... Meet me in the field, behind the dynamo ... Greg Skinner (gregbo) {allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo