[news.misc] BITNET <=> UUCP Gateway established.

DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) (03/07/91)

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Doug
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Date:         Wed, 6 Mar 91 17:17:17 EST
From:         Jim Conklin <CONKLIN@BITNIC.BITNET>
Subject:      BITNET<->UUCP Gateway Now Installed

         (Sorry for the cross-posting.  Future announcements on DOMAIN-L,
          BITNEWS, and TECHNEWS only.  Please use DOMAIN-L for discussion.)

  Thanks to the kind cooperation of Princeton University and of UUNET
Communications Services (which has provided a special interface to
UUCP, for BITNET only), a new BITNET<->UUCP gateway is now available.
It is known as UUCPGATE to BITNET sites and is documented in the new
version of DOMAIN NAMES and BITNET GATES, and included in the March
(9103) routing tables, so it should require little
end-user education.  Obviously, however, these new files must be
installed and your MAILER's reference to them updated, in order for the
new gateway to be accessed for mail to the UUCP domain.
  Mail to BITNET from USENET and UUNET will now have to be sent via
UUNET and UUCPGATE (presently known to UUNET only as pucc.princeton.edu),
in order to reach a BITNET node through this new gateway.  For
example, to reach the BITNET address CONKLIN@BITNIC from a UUCP node,
the following address should work:
        ...!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!bitnic!conklin
John Wagner is attempting to get bitnet.uucp registered with UUNET.
After that has been accomplished, it should be possible to use addresses
such as
        ...!uunet!bitnet!bitnic!conklin
but such an address does not work yet.
                                       Jim
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