An Internet address has periods in it, like JASPER at ALMADEN.IBM.COM (yours) RJG at RATIONAL.COM (Bob Geiger's) LANE at SPOT.COLORADO.EDU (Jim's) LINA at ALUMNI.COLORADO.EDU (Lina's) TECH at WRKGRP.COM (The WorkStation Group) kk2tt@iac.co.jp (Terri & Kazuo Nii) You can use CSNOTE with Internet. Stuff comes through our gateway, SMTPCS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A Bitnet address looks just like a normal IBM-Internal address, it's just that the node goes outside IBM. SoandSo at CUNYVM for example. NOTEBIT TRACK at CUNYVM (Ross Fried for TRACK) A list of nodes is in BITNET NODES, used by the BITCHECK EXEC, the exec NOTE calls to check for notes going outside IBM. You can use NOTEBIT & SENDBIT & TELLBIT with Bitnet. Stuff is routed by NET to nodes ALMVMA, TJWATSON, and CUNYNET. A 8-29-95 append in BITNET NEWS on ARCTALK by Roy says the "Research Division will be canceling membership in CREN, through which the BITNET network has been available" and it has "been replaced with packet switched Internet connections." "To address mail to a user on BITNET that does not have an Internet connection, address the mail to userid%bitnetnode@cunyvm.cuny.edu" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know where USENET fits into this picture.