gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) (10/24/83)
Does anyone know why Bitnet addresses have such a strange syntax? I'd really like to know what the "g" stands for. example: g.bostonu=csc126 --greg decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!gds, gds%mit-eddie@{mit-mc,mit-ml}
fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (10/27/83)
The `G' refers the UCB Computer Facilities & Operations Unix System G, which is a Vax-11/780, and the primary mail link to UCBVMA (The IBM 4341 on the BITNET). I would be interested to know if the UCB sendmail will accept BITNET as a real domain from the ARPANET side (e.g. PERSON@PLACE.BITNET.BERKELEY.ARPA), since I know it will accept PERSON@PLACE.BITNET in locally generated mail... Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA {ucbvax,amd70,zehntel,unisoft}!dual!fair Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California