Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!dell!mikeh From: mikeh@dell.dell.com (Mike Hammel) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: How do I get from here to there? (E-mail to various nets) Message-ID: <2617@dell.dell.com> Date: 9 Aug 89 22:37:57 GMT References: <1676@sactoh0> <2573@dell.dell.com> <391@wet.UUCP> Reply-To: mikeh@dell.UUCP (Mike Hammel, ) Organization: Dell Computer Corp., Austin, Tx. Lines: 23 In article <391@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes: >In article <2573@dell.dell.com> mikeh@dell.UUCP (Mike Hammel, ) writes: >>From UUCP to Bitnet: >> node.bitnet!userid where node is the Bitnet node and userid is >> the userid on that Bitnet node > >Funny, I'm not aware of any UNIX system "out of the box" that >will accept this. Even systems shipped with sendmail--the >supplied configuration files had no bitnet hacks. If this >works on your system it's because someone specifically provided >to intercept it--both uucp and DNS will reject node.bitnet. You're right. I tried it again and it didn't work. That response was taken from a response I got from a list on Bitnet (can't remember which one). I take it that UUCPnode!node.bitnet!userid would work if the UUCP node knows what to do witht the rest of the address (such as psuvax1, I was told, would). Michael J. Hammel | UUCP(preferred): ...!cs.utexas.edu!dell!Kepler!mjhammel Dell Computer Corp. | Also: ...!dell!dell!mikeh or 73377.3467@compuserve.com Austin, TX | Phone: 512-338-4400 ext 7169 | "I know engineers, they looooove to change things" Disclaimer: |: These are my views, not necessarily those of the nice folks I work for.