Re-routing mail, addressing in the UK

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2 total messages Started by L. Jason colton Wed, 05 Aug 1992 03:02

#93

Author: L. Jason colton
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 03:02

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Howdy.
 
I have a friend who will be spending a year in England, at a school which has
Email access, but apparently lacks the "international access" to send email
to the U.S.
 
I have recently been told about re-routing mail, which allows one to send mail
through another school.  Would this then allow her to slip the mail through
to the US?  Does anyone out there know of addresses which she could use to
do this?
 
Also, a friend of mine has been led to believe that, in the UK, these re-
routing addresses must be written backwards, i.e. what would be @ukc.ac.uk
over here must be typed in as @uk.ac.ukc for re-routing purposes...
 
Is this valid?
 
Do any of you have a moderately scant vision of what I might be going on
about?
 
                        Email or posted responses would be terribly helpful.
 
 
                        Thanks bunches,
 
                        ljason@wam.umd.edu.         O-|--<

Re: Re-routing mail, addressing in the UK

#94

Author: John Wilcock
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 07:29

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In article <1992Aug5.030256.23011@wam.umd.edu>, ljason@wam.umd.edu 
(L. Jason colton) writes:
>I have a friend who will be spending a year in England, at a school which has
>Email access, but apparently lacks the "international access" to send email
>to the U.S.
> 
>I have recently been told about re-routing mail, which allows one to send mail
>through another school.  Would this then allow her to slip the mail through
>to the US?  Does anyone out there know of addresses which she could use to
>do this?
> 
>Also, a friend of mine has been led to believe that, in the UK, these re-
>routing addresses must be written backwards, i.e. what would be @ukc.ac.uk
>over here must be typed in as @uk.ac.ukc for re-routing purposes...
> 
>Is this valid?
> 
>Do any of you have a moderately scant vision of what I might be going on
>about?
> 

JANET addressing is indeed back-to-front, so your address from a JANET 
site would be ljason@edu.umd.wam. Many JANET sites now have a direct 
internet link; those that don't use the nsfnet-relay.ac.uk gateway. 

If the direct addressing doesn't work, you can route via nsfnet-relay
explicitly. (i.e. ljason%edu.umd.wam@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay). You can also 
use the gateway in the other direction (i.e. from outside JANET send to 
user%domain.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk)

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