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Re: mail to Dialcom

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From: Peter Elford
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1991 05:52
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In article <a9000005.689998844@tscc2>, a9000005@tscc2.macarthur.uws.edu.au (Brian Watson) writes:
|> Hi,
|>    I have been trying for some time to get mail to Dialcom in the UK.
|> I have been told by people in the UK that I need to send to an address
|> something like the following:
|> 
|> "/G=10087/S=CQQ061/O=Gateway to Gold/ADMD=Interspan/C=GB/"@uk.ac.mhs-relay
|> 
|> This all makes sense except for one problem.  The spaces in 'Gateway to Gold'!
|> The mailers I use assume that the first space is the end of the address.
|> 
|> Has anyone used this type of address?  Is this a valid Internet address?
|> Is there another way into Dialcom?

I send mail to our OTC representative (who claims his Dialcom address is
6007 OTC060) like this:

	otc060@dcdau7.das.net

How this maps to your UK address is beyond me however!

Peter Elford,                           	e-mail: P.Elford@aarnet.edu.au
Network Co-ordinator,	 			phone: +61 6 249 3542
Australian Academic Research Network,		fax:   +61 6 247 3425
c/o, Computer Services Centre,			pager: +61 6 245 3035
Australian National University			post:	PO Box 4     
Canberra, AUSTRALIA					Canberra 2601
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Subject: Re: mail to Dialcom
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