BITNET: A Status Report

By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Editor (lynch@unt.edu)

We have been talking about dropping our BITNET connection since last year. As of December, 1994 we stopped paying CREN, BITNET s parent organization, for our connection. So far, CREN has not removed UNT from the BITNET routing tables, thus preserving our membership. At some point in time, probably in the near future, UNT will be removed and we won t be a BITNET site anymore.

As was stated in the article Drop of BITNET Connection Likely that appeared in the July/August 1994 issue of Benchmarks (Vol. 15, No. 4, pg. 8), once we are no longer a active members of BITNET, only services which rely on interactive messages (sent via the CMS TELL command) will no longer be available. Most mailing list subscriptions will not be affected and LISTSERV services will still be accessible via a mail message. LISTSERV subscription addresses have been converted to the Internet format for the nodename for CMS (vm.acs.unt.edu) or the VAX (vaxb.acs.unt.edu).

Your Internet Address

If you haven t already done so, it is very important to begin using your Internet address when exchanging addresses with colleagues around the country or world.

Your Internet address on CMS is: userid@vm.acs.unt.edu

Your Internet address on the VAX is: userid@vaxb.acs.unt.edu

Userid is your CMS or VAX User-ID. If you have questions about BITNET, please contact Dr. Philip Baczewski (baczewski@unt.edu, ISB 119, 565-2324).

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