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Bitnet

Users of Bitnet (and NetNorth in Canada and EARN in Europe) often have addresses in this form: <IZZY@INDVMS>. If you're lucky, all you'll have to do to mail to that address is add "bitnet" at the end, to get <izzy@indvms.bitnet>. Sometimes, however, mail to such an address will bounce back to you, because Bitnet addresses do not always translate well into an Internet form. If this happens, you can send mail through one of two Internet/Bitnet gateways. First, change the `@' in the address to a `%', so that you get <user%site.bitnet>. Then add either `@vm.marist.edu' or `@cunyvm.cuny.edu', so that, with the above example, you would get <izzy%indyvms.bitnet@vm.marist.edu> or <izzy%indvyvms.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu>

Bitnet users have it a little easier: They can usually send mail directly to your e-mail address without fooling around with it at all. So send them your address and they should be OK.

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