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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 17:48:31 EST
- From: andys@internet.sbi.com (Andy Sherman)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Other Bitnet Servers
- Message-ID: <telecom12.917.16@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 917, Message 16 of 17
- Lines: 32
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- On 16 Dec 92 23:25:01 GMT, jeremy@cs.swarthmore.edu (Jeremy Brest)
- said:
-
- > If for whatever reason your host doesn't cope with
- > user@system.binet, tr`y user%system.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu.
-
- To which Pat, our Moderator replied:
-
- > [Moderator's Note: Ah yes, what a fine net-neighborly act! Let's
- > dump our traffic on the City University of New York. If they want
- > to run an open Bitnet gate, that's fine; but more than one
- > institution has fixed things so the local Bitnet gate is limited
- > to their own users; local traffic only, they do not run an email
- > expressway through campus. PAT]
-
- Actually, the City University of New York, *does* seem to have agreed
- to be the "official" gateway from the Internet to Bitnet. I've seen
- countless numbers of documents on the net in the comp.mail.*
- newsgroups pointing at them. Also, checking a few nameservers around
- the net, cunyvm.cuny.edu appears in everybody's list of MX records for
- host.bitnet, even if as the gateway of last resort. Something tells
- me they volunteered.
-
- But I agree with your sentiment of not dumping on a friendly site just
- because they're friendly.
-
-
- Andy Sherman Salomon Inc - Unix Systems Support - Rutherford, NJ
- (201) 896-7018 - andys@sbi.com or asherman@sbi.com
- "These opinions are mine, all *MINE*. My employer can't have them."
-
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