CHAA006@vaxa.rhbnc.ac.UK (03/16/88)
Dave Stevens asked how a user at his site could send e-mail to a user in the U.K., at UK.AC.LEICESTER.VAX In general, to send mail fron an InterNet site to the UK, reverse the order of the (period-separated) fields in the UK form of the name; thus for the example he quoted, reverse UK.AC.LEICESTER.VAX to give VAX.LEICESTER.AC.UK Not all mailers will understand the address, even in this form. For example, strict BitNet implementations which require <eight-character-user>@<eight-character-site> will not be able to deal with such an address. For them, it is necessary to create the mail header 'by hand', specifying <user>@<reversed-site> as above, and then ship the file to the real BitNet <mailbox> MAILER@UKACRL Another variation which may be tried involved replacing the initial commercial- at with a per-cent symbol, and suffixing the resulting address with @AC.UK All of these methods assume that the preferred route is through the UK BitNet gateway; if the InterNet gateway at UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS is preferred, the initial commercial-at may be replaced with a per-cent symbol, and the resulting address suffixed with @NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK