Mon, 14 Jun 1993 14:56:52 EDT
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In article <[log in to unmask]>, "John F. Chandler"
<[log in to unmask]> says:
>The following list is from BITNET GATES, the official summary of
>gateways maintained on LISTSERV@BITNIC and the various NETSERV's.
>Most of them are probably included in the file called INTERNET LISTING,
>also available from LISTSERV@BITNIC, which gives the correspondence
>between BITNET and Internet names. Note that a great many other sites
>are capable of acting as gateways and continually do so for locally
>generated e-mail. (...)
At the risk of making a fool out of myself, I would not depend upon
INTERNET LISTING as a source of general purpose B/I gateways since
there is 0 commitment that such a gateway is well-maintained(*), will
get you to other sites, or even if the FQDN exists or is duplicative
of some other Bitnet node. (Of course I am talking in the "global"
sense and not what the locals do.)
/Pete, an IBM TCP/IP For MVS SMTP maintainer
(*) well-maintained in the sense that certain procedure must be
followed in order to add new Bitnet nodes that can be routed
to FROM the Internet.
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