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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
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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.
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