JANET troubles

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From: Jonathan C. Kagle
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1987 00:47

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	For the past month or so, I have been trying to get in touch with a
friend at The University of St. Andrews, in Scotland.  Unfortunately, the
mail is swallowed somewhere along the way there.  I can send mail to:
username%uk.ac.st-and.sava@ac.uk with no positive (reply) or negative (error
message) feedback from St. Andrews.  I have tried to get through to the post-
master/mistress, but I have recieved no reply.
	I have already sent mail to bogus addresses, with varying success.  I
sent a letter to postmaster%uk.ac.st-and.xxx@ac.uk, and other permutations, and
I get a "No Such Address"-type error message from the BITNET-JANET gateway.
However if I send a message to xxx%uk.ac.st-and.sava@ac.uk, I get no response
at all (BTW, I did try several replacements for the xxx's, so there could be
no chance that I reached real usernames at St. Andrews.).
	Could someone help me get through?  Have I found a mailer bug?  Should
I use another gateway?  HELP!
	-Jonathan C. Kagle

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!batcomputer!kagle

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From: kagle@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Jonathan C. Kagle)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: JANET troubles
Message-ID: <701@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 19:47:18 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.701
Posted: Wed Apr 15 19:47:18 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 05:38:06 EST
Reply-To: kagle@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu.UUCP (Jonathan C. Kagle)
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Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: JANET, UK, gateways, help!
Summary: How do I reach Scotland?