Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!lamc!wet!epsilon From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: How do I get from here to there? (E-mail to various nets) Summary: The $64 question Keywords: Usenet UUCP InterNet BitNet and other Nets Message-ID: <386@wet.UUCP> Date: 8 Aug 89 20:15:29 GMT References: <1676@sactoh0> Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 26 In article <1676@sactoh0> mholtz@sactoh0 (Mark A. Holtz) writes: > I currently reside at sactoh0, a UUCP site. How can I e-mail a >message to someone whose address lies at another net, ie Bitnet. >How do I mail E-mail from one net to another? The answer to this is site-specific. There are two reasons for this: (1) I don't know what kind of mail setup you have, and what "magic incantations" it wants (2) the answer depends very much on where you are ... and whom you want to communicate with. uucp, Internet, BITNET, HEPNET/SPAN have many points of contact. Picking the right one(s) gets your message delivered faster and more reliably, and spreads the load more or less evenly across the various networks. Simplistic answers like "just hand it off to psuvax1" do more harm than good ... unless you're in the vicinity of Pennsylvania. BITNET is, unfortunately, one of the hardest to "get right" since even BITNET users have a hard time getting information--the most useful is restricted to official node administrators because of its size and BITNET's limited capacity. I'd start by asking people-in-the-know at Cal State Sacramento. C'mon back if that doesn't lead anywhere. -=EPS=-