gts@wjh12.UUCP (G. T. Samson) (11/07/85)
I have a problem. I'm trying to send to a friend of mine at RPI;
her account name is "mkim@rpi-cicge.BITNET". Now, for some
reason, the bitnet handler around here trims off all but the
first 8 characters of the address! In other words, after the
first bitnet hop, the address has become
"mkim@rpi"
which is majorly incorrect...
Is there any way around this major problem?
And if not, is there anyone who knows of a path to that machine?
(that is, "rpi-cicge")
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Name: G. T. Samson
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USMail: Lowell N-43, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA 02138scco@ur-tut.UUCP (Sean Colbath) (11/09/85)
In article <654@wjh12.UUCP> gts@wjh12.UUCP (G. T. Samson) writes: >I have a problem. I'm trying to send to a friend of mine at RPI; >her account name is "mkim@rpi-cicge.BITNET". Now, for some >reason, the bitnet handler around here trims off all but the >first 8 characters of the address! In other words, after the >first bitnet hop, the address has become > "mkim@rpi" >which is majorly incorrect... > >Is there any way around this major problem? > >And if not, is there anyone who knows of a path to that machine? >(that is, "rpi-cicge") > >G. T. Samson Umm, I hate to tell you this, but if the address is > than 8 characters, I would seriously doubt its being on BITNET. As far as I know, *all* BITNET nodenames are 8 characters or less, that being the IBM standard for things (i.e. userids are 8 or less, filenames are 8 or less). Also, the last time I looked, there were no nodes on BITNET that had hyphens in their nodenames. In addition, I checked with our RSCS machine (user that runs networking software, sort of like a daemon) at UORVM, our BITNET site, and it did not know about 'rpi-cicge'. I would suspect that what you have is an ARPAnet address, akin to 'cmu-cs-a' or 'mit-oz'.. (at least I think those are ARPAnet addresses, things can get so confusing!). -Sean Colbath "Dave, why don't you take a stress pill and lie down for a while?" UUCP: {allegra,decvax,ihnp4}!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!scco BITNET: SCCO@UORVM