riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (08/16/88)
We are a UUCP-only site but we regularly exchange mail with BITNET
sites via gateways. From time to time we've had problems establishing
mail contact with a BITNET site when we weren't entirely sure of its
node name (not all of our users are computeroids and they sometimes
make mistakes :-] ). Is there any mail-based way to inquire about a
BITNET node name?
The case at hand, if anyone's interested, is a node called "ESEVVX"
purportedly at the Universidad de Sevilla in Spain. Our gateway claims
never to have heard of it (nor of "ESEVAX", which struck me as a
likely spelling if "ESEVVX" was a typo). We got the "ESEVVX.BITNET"
address from the university letterhead. Was somebody in Sevilla
hallucinating?
Thanks.
-- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
-- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
-- riddle%woton.uucp@cs.utexas.edu uunet!ut-sally!cs.utexas.edu!woton!riddlemikulska@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Margaret Mikulska) (08/23/88)
In article <1102@woton.UUCP> riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) writes: Keywords: >We are a UUCP-only site but we regularly exchange mail with BITNET >sites via gateways. > >The case at hand, if anyone's interested, is a node called "ESEVVX" >purportedly at the Universidad de Sevilla in Spain. Our gateway claims >never to have heard of it (nor of "ESEVAX", which struck me as a >likely spelling if "ESEVVX" was a typo). We got the "ESEVVX.BITNET" >address from the university letterhead. Was somebody in Sevilla >hallucinating? > Yes. Or was bitten by a tarantula. They are NOT on Bitnet, no matter what they say. They may be PLANNING on connecting to Bitnet, but it hasn't happened yet. Remember that the letterheads are chosen from a catalog by an administ- rative person, and approved by her/his boss. None of them knows (usually) much about computer networks. They are on a DECNET network. As a matter of fact, I sent you e-mail yesterday, but right after I sent it, I managed to reach ESEVVX. Unfortunately, I sent it to "postmaster" instead of "system", so I got "user unknown", but it was "user unknown at node ESEVVX", so I reached the node as such. (For more gory details send me e-mail. I'll have more details when and if "system" will answer me.) Margaret Mikulska Department of Computer Science and Engineering, C-014 Institute for Nonlinear Science, R-002 University of California | ARPA : mikulska@cs.ucsd.edu | or mem@inls1.ucsd.edu at San Diego | UUCP : sdcsvax!mikulska | BITNET : MMIKULSK@UCSD La Jolla, CA 92093 | voice : (619) 534-1452