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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
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Posted: Sun Dec 30 10:51:25 1984
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> 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.
-- 
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Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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