Re: Testing BITNET links

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From: Doug Sewell
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 22:15

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Alan Coopersmith (alanc@ocf.berkeley.edu) writes:
: Our sendmail.cf was set up so that we couldn't mail to user@node.bitnet
: directly.  I think this is fixed, but I'm not sure.  Are there any bitnet
: addresses I can mail to that will just echo something back to me? (a
: misc.test sort of service)

Sending e-mail to a BITNET site with any kind of decent mailer, that
addresses a non-existent userid, will do it.  You'll get a no-such-local-
user mail bounce.

This one's guaranteed to bounce: bouncer@ysub.bitnet  (that's our local
bitnet+internet node).

Doug
-- 
Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center, Youngstown State University
doug@cc.ysu.edu	   doug@ysub.bitnet	<internet>!cc.ysu.edu!doug
We've had 4 years of domestic policy failure.  Fire Bush this November.

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Subject: Re: Testing BITNET links
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