Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: UREP help sought Message-ID: <9830@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: 5 Jul 88 14:31:42 GMT References: <579@n8emr.UUCP> <403@cseg.uucp> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 39 In article <403@cseg.uucp> lag@cseg.uucp (L. Adrian Griffis) writes: >My understanding is that most BITNET sites have a map of the rest of >the network. I'm not a POSTMASTER, but I believe there is a distribution >list for such a map and most POSTMASTERs subscribe. I don't know if you >can subscribe from UseNet, but I suspect you can get some postmaster >somewhere to send a copy. Yes there is a map. I don't know exactly how I got on the distribution list, I think it has to do with one of the entries in the site entry for this place but it's been well over a year since I've done anyting with site entries and I don't remember ANY details. All the map is is a routing table -- for that node you send the file to this neighbor of yours. Each site has a similar table. It works but isn't wonderful. Also it's kind of boring here because we're a leaf site -- every other site on BITNET is on the other side of UKCCB ... There's another table that's more interesting. But it's very large and I don't know of any documentation describing its internal format. Not that it's very hard to read anyway, but writing a program to decode things out of it would be slightly hard. Anyway, it's got a name like BITEARN NAMES or some such, and is available through your country-wide NETSERVer. (For the USA, it's the one at BITNIC). >There is normally an alias called POSTMAST for the POSTMASTER's id >at a particular node, so you should be able to send a request to >"POSTMAST@UGA" for such a list. From UseNet, the address should be >"POSTMAST@UGA.bitnet". ... THis is almost correct. It's not "normally" installed. Again, there is a tag in that more interesting table which says who to send postmaster type mail to. You have to be able to look it up in that table in order to know who to send mail to. *THERE*ISN'T*A*STANDARD*NAME*TO*SEND*TO*! Well, nor is there a standard format for mail either. What a wonderful network they have :-). -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy<---- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- <---- I'm not bad, I'm just coded that way!