>Yesterday I got an auto-delete from a user at ALBION.BITNET with a notation
>that ALBION did not appear in BITEARN NODES VERS9407.  It took me a
>while to figure out that the Internet alias was ALBION.EDU, primarily
>because our nameserver here apparently doesn't understand that yet :),
>but it raised a question that perhaps we ought to be concerned about.
>Are nodes dropping from BITNET in ever-increasing numbers, and should
>we as listowners be doing something about switching our BITNET subscribers
>over to Internet before they get auto-deleted in the manner noted above?
 
Though albion.edu is a valid e-mail host, it is NOT telnet/ftp
accessible i.e., it is MXed to another host.
 
It can not be implied that bitnode == bitnode.edu e.g., there
is NO psuvm.edu.
 
Depending upon how you did your nameserver lookup, it might "fail."
 
There is a document called LEAVING BITNET NETINFO stored on
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/P