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[Warren D. Calhoun]

In <526 at oss670.UUCP> tkevans at oss670.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:

>>Try sending mail to  bitftp at pucc.princeton.edu and have the body of
>>the message read:

>>help

>The trouble with these instructions is that they _presume_ the sender
>is on the Internet:  you tell them to send mail to an Internet
>address (actually, to a bitnet address).  These people don't have
>Internet access, or they wouldn't have to ask about how to do
>'ftp'.

>If you are on the UUCP network, direct your mail to (assuming you have
>access somehow to uunet):

>...!uunet!bucc.princeton.edu!bitftp

I'm not "on the Internet" but I have no problem mailing to an "Internet"
address.  I don't think the instructions were at all presumptuous.  True,
including a bang-path might have been nice for those who couldn't figure
it out (and who also don't have access to a smart mailer), but I doubt that
the author intended to be giving a lesson on addressing schemes.

In point of fact, I am a UUCP only site and, upon reading the orginal post,
immediately tried it.  Using the address supplied worked perfectly.
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