From ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ames!rutgers!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!chet Sat Sep 26 23:08:58 PDT 1987

In article <1401@homxc.UUCP> tibor1@homxc.UUCP (T.SCHONFELD) writes:
>I would appreciate if I can get help on sending mail to a person at
>a machine called yalevm, which is a computer at yale univ, connected
>to bitnet. If anybody can send me more info on bitnet or tell me where to
>look up the info I would greatly appreciate it. My gateway to
>USENET is ihnp4 or research.

Sorry to those who know this already, but I've seen enough postings like
this to warrant posting this information.

The UUCP - BITNet gateway is at Penn State University, a machine called
psuvax1.  psuvax1 supports the path/domain syntax as defined in RFC 976,
so, to reach bitnet from UUCP, the address to use is this:

	path!to!psuvax1!host.BITNET!user

In the above case, a plausible address to use would be

	ihnp4!psuvax1!yalevm.BITNET!user

For information about BITNET, send mail to info@BITNIC.  I have never tried
to get any info from there, so I don't know if you need to use a special
format like the ones the CSNet info-server and netlib require.

For general information about networks, try reading "Notable Computer
Networks", by John Quarterman and Josiah Hoskins, Communications of the
ACM, v29, #10, pp. 932-971.  This is by far the best introductory
paper I have ever seen on computer networks.

Chet Ramey
chet@mandrill.cwru.edu
...!cbosgd!mandrill!chet