jwm@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt) (05/03/89)
Is there a group which carries on discussions concerning the internet / bitnet compatability/cross-communications/whatever? I know I can (and do) mail across, and belong to a few bitnet mailing lists, but there seems to be a real shortage on discussion on this possibility. Disclaimer: "It's mine! All mine!!!" - D. Duck
ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen) (05/12/89)
> Is there a group which carries on discussions concerning the internet / > bitnet compatability/cross-communications/whatever? I know I can > (and do) mail across, and belong to a few bitnet mailing lists, but there > seems to be a real shortage on discussion on this possibility. comp.mail.misc also info-nets@think.com (send to info-nets-request@think.com for subscription) It's more efficient to use LISTSERV@BITNIC for this list. Do this to subscribe to the listserv redistribution of the info-nets list (I do this even though I'm from the Internet, it's easier): Mail listserv@bitnic.bitnet subject: (anything at all) SUB INFONETS Your (real) Name also talk to LISTSERV@BITNIC.BITNET, it has lots of files, I haven't really found what you're looking for (I've wanted it to refer people to it). also it's so easy it doesn't need much explanation. INTERNET->BITNET: USER@HOST.BITNET is similar to USER@HOST.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU and USER%HOST.BITNET@UUNET.UU.NET, and perhaps @CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:USER@HOST.BITNET. BITNET->INTERNET: you're on your own, ASK YOUR LOCAL POSTMASTER. also BITNET and CSNET are merging. I'd expect things to be working better a few years from now.
GA.JRG@forsythe.stanford.edu (June Genis) (05/12/89)
In article <25098@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen) writes: >INTERNET->BITNET: >USER@HOST.BITNET is similar to USER@HOST.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU >and USER%HOST.BITNET@UUNET.UU.NET, and perhaps >@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU:USER@HOST.BITNET. > >BITNET->INTERNET: you're on your own, ASK YOUR LOCAL POSTMASTER. To mail from BITNET to the internet use user%host@INTERBIT. INTERBIT will be a different host depending on where you are in the network topology. That's all taken care of in the routing tables though. It should be transparent to the user (except that aome INTERBITS are running experimental code to do MXing while others aren't so you can get erratic results for MX attached sites right now). /June
YBMCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (05/16/89)
In article <3115@lindy.Stanford.EDU>, GA.JRG@forsythe.stanford.edu (June Genis) says: > >In article <25098@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, >ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen) writes: >> >>BITNET->INTERNET: you're on your own, ASK YOUR LOCAL POSTMASTER. > >To mail from BITNET to the internet use user%host@INTERBIT. >INTERBIT will be a different host depending on where you are in the >network topology. That's all taken care of in the routing tables >though. It should be transparent to the user (except that aome >INTERBITS are running experimental code to do MXing while others >aren't so you can get erratic results for MX attached sites right >now). > >/June Actually, that's close but won't work. In the general case, just mail to user@host and let the mailers take it from there. If they are configured properly, they will wrap it into a BSMTP envelope, and send it to SMTP@INTERBIT - a fake userid on a fake node connected to CUNYVM. The mail will then be intercepted by a gateway machine which will send it to the Internet, after the required header munging to produce a reply'able address on the FROM: line. INTERBIT doesn't exist - there only exists code in the gateway machines to pass mail destined for SMTP@INTERBIT off to the Internet. (All of the above is true for IBM VM machines running the Crosswell mailer. If not, you may need to do some of this yourself, if your mailer doesn't take care of it. However, mail to a userid other than SMTP will be ignored if directed at INTERBIT, so I expect that your method won't work - unless you've got a local mailer that makes the correct transformations.) ------- ----------------- Ben Yalow - Postmaster BITNET: YBMCU@CUNYVM INTERNET: YBMCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU City University of New York 555 W 57 St NY, NY 10019 212-903-3623