Date   : Wed, 28 Aug 1985 16:18:56 EDT (Wed)
From   : Jeff Edelheit <edelheit@MITRE.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Bitnet and Arpanet

Hal - Bitnet is a service of EDUCOM.  Bitnet, CSNET and one or two others
are all services of EDUCOM.  If I remember correctly, all of the EDUCOM
net services are based on RSCS (IBM for Remote spooling....(?)).  There is
a gateway between CSNET and Arpanet (I believe it is at WISCVM or was
it CSNET-RELAY?)  A bitnet user cannot FTP or TELNET to an ARPA/Milnet host.
It is my understanding that it is just an email gateway.

If the resources the Bitnetter wants is the SIMTEL20 archives, depending on
what and how much they want, you may be able to "mail" it to them.  Otherwise,
Frank Wancho (Wancho@SIMTEL20) might generate one or more tapes.

Hope this helps.

Jeff Edelheit
(edelheit@mitre)