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- Message-ID: <9301261219.AA23161@Ra.MsState.Edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:19:32 CST
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
- Subject: Internet-Bitnet
- Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- > >From: LNCJB%WOMBAT.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
- > Can anyone explain to me how I wound up with a bitnet address on internet?
- > I can't recall that ever happening before.
-
- No, but in exploring the problem I discovered that a colleague of mine was
- right yesterday when she kept telling me that her outgoing bitnet mail was
- mysteriously turning into internet mail and thus being rejected by a
- send-private list she was on. I wish FWP would hurry up and log on and
- tell me what's happening. For ages our system has been configured to turn
- mail addressed with .bitnet into internet mail (i.e., to send it from here
- to UGA via internet, thus keeping our bitnet addresses out of the picture).
- But suddenly mail addressed to user@node is also going to UGA as internet
- mail, with our internet addresses. In other words, it's now impossible to
- send bitnet mail. That suits me fine since it will keep me from having to
- explain to confused e-mail beginners how to avoid bitnet. But I can't
- figure out why it suddenly changed. Maybe our bitnet software is being
- thrown away at last.
- --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
-