Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!woton!riddle From: riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: How to find BITNET node names from a UUCP-only site? Message-ID: <1102@woton.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 88 14:54:34 GMT Organization: Shriners Burns Institute, Galveston Lines: 19 Say-Villain: "Bob" We are a UUCP-only site but we regularly exchange mail with BITNET sites via gateways. From time to time we've had problems establishing mail contact with a BITNET site when we weren't entirely sure of its node name (not all of our users are computeroids and they sometimes make mistakes :-] ). Is there any mail-based way to inquire about a BITNET node name? The case at hand, if anyone's interested, is a node called "ESEVVX" purportedly at the Universidad de Sevilla in Spain. Our gateway claims never to have heard of it (nor of "ESEVAX", which struck me as a likely spelling if "ESEVVX" was a typo). We got the "ESEVVX.BITNET" address from the university letterhead. Was somebody in Sevilla hallucinating? Thanks. -- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") -- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer. -- riddle%woton.uucp@cs.utexas.edu uunet!ut-sally!cs.utexas.edu!woton!riddle