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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 13:09:12 EDT
- From: Richard Budd <BUDD@CSPGAS11.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Internet Question
- Message-ID: <telecom12.869.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: CSAV UTIA
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 869, Message 3 of 8
- Lines: 46
-
- Since arriving in Prague, Czechoslovakia, I have had to improvise many
- times from previous habits while using the facilities of the Czech
- Academy of Sciences. Among them was routing Internet messages through
- a different mailer than the one where it would normally be sent. In
- the case I described below, the message would have been sent through
- SMTP at INTERBIT at the Universitaet Wien, but instead I addressed it
- to City University of New York on BITNET.
-
- As I learn more about telecommuications and the Internet, I wonder if
- explanations I previously have made were correct, or if I had just
- attributed a phenomenon to another cause. If the explanation I gave
- my friend was incorrect, could you set me onto the right course.
- Thanks.
-
- ------------Original Message----------
-
- You can select the computer path from which to route messages, if the
- default link is not available. From Marist, email messages normally
- route through University of Connecticut (UCONNVM) or Yale (YALEVM).
- However, you can specify a machine at another campus by writing the
- destination node as userid, percent sign, node; and then write "at"
- sign and the node whose mailer you want to use. For example, if you
- wanted to send a message through CUNY's machine rather than Yale's,
- you would address the note as follows:
-
- budd%cspgas11@cunyvm.bitnet (you would probably drop .bitnet)
-
- By specifying cunyvm or maristb as the mailer of choice, it got me
- around the problem with SMTP/INTERBIT at the University of Vienna.
- You may want to try it sometime. I may want to write to the TELECOM
- forum to learn more why it works.
-
- ------------End Message---------
-
- Let me know if there is a different explanation for this.
-
- If readers are interested, I can write something on the calling cards
- available in Prague for making long distance phone calls from local
- booths.
-
-
- Richard Budd | USA klub@maristb.bitnet | CSFR budd@cspgas11.bitnet
- | 139 S. Hamilton St. | Kolackova 8
- | Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 | 18200 Praha 8
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