MELAN@wfeb2.bitnet (10/01/90)
I have been trying to respond to a posting on this bulletin board (rec.
28-SEP-1990 Id# 9009280657.AA04948@genbank.bio.net) but to no avail. It seems
as though the sender's address is not accessable from BITNET or that there is an
error somewhere either in my sending or in their receiving. In any case the
message was posted without a signature. The sender gave only their initials!
Therefore, even though I would like to respond to their question and may even
have some very useful information for them I cannot.
The subject of Net-etiquette was a recent topic of discussion on Bionet.
Perhaps it should be re-emphasized that persons posting messages should include
a *proper* signature. Therefore if someone is unable to respond via the network
or E-mail they can then resort (God, forbid) to the U.S. Postal Service or to th
telephone.
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Melissa Melan (MELAN@WFEB2):BITNET
Worcester Foundation for
Experimental Biology
222 Maple Avenue
Shrewsbury, MA 01545harper@csc.fi (Rob Harper (Supercomputer Centre Finland)) (10/02/90)
In article <9009301834.AA16639@genbank.bio.net>, MELAN@wfeb2.bitnet writes: > >I have been trying to respond to a posting on this bulletin board (rec. 28-SEP-1990 Id# 9009280657.AA04948@genbank.bio.net) but to no avail. Dear Melissa, If I look at your address as it comes to me in Europe it looks like this MELAN%wfeb2.bitnet@genbank.bio.net When you compare it with KBIO11%DKLUNI01@pucc.princeton.edu you can see that the "structure" is roughly the same. Both have used the "% hack" to deliver the message. The way it works is that the mailer sends your messages to the address behind the "@" sign and if it makes it to there it then changes the "%" sign to a "@" and sends it to a new address in this case KBIO11@DKLUNI01 who is a user in Germany. The EARN node is. DKLUNI01 ( ) DE , RHRK Kaiserslautern, Germany (See BIONAUT or bionet.users.addresses on how to interperate EARN nodes) So if you still want to reply personlly to M.N then send your E-Mail to KBIO11@DKLUNI01.BITNET. It should work. By the way I do not blame you if you had troubles with that address. It is a monster... since from the USERID IO11 could be interperated as 10II or 101I and from the NODE I01 could be 1OI (Capital I's an 1's are often mixed as are 0's and capital O's). Rob "a 0 is a 0 is a O " Harper %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Robert Harper %% HARPER@FINFUN %% HARPER@CSC.FI %% -=ROB=- %% Supercomputer %% Bitnet %% Internet %% %% Centre Finland %% Tel 358 0 4572076 %% Fax 358 0 4572302 %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%