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I have trying to connect with my father who works for DHHS (Department of Health and Human Services) in Seattle, Wa.   
He is on a BANYAN node but he doesn't know which one it is.  He looked up
his email address and said it was <NAME>@ofs.afdc@acf.sea so I tried
sending this as the secondary address.  That didn't work so I asked Larry
Dusold, an HHS sys-admin, what the problem is.  He sent me a list of BANYAN 
nodes to "guess"
at which one might be the seattle node.  I found one called OSPSEA which
looked like it could be the Seattle node.  I tried using this node name as
the secondary address: *OSPSEA.SANDAHL but that did not work.

Could you tell me how I could find out the proper node name or possibly
give me some intelligent question my father (the computer idiot) could
asked the local sys-admin to find out the proper address. 

This is a little frustrating but I am really interested in communicating
with him through the HHS gateway.  I really appreciate your help.

The following is a captured response from the HHS Gateway after sending what I thought was the correct address, etc.:

  
From IBMMAIL%CFSAN8.BITNET@uwavm.u.washington.edu Mon Sep 14 10:59:51 1992
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 10:23 EDT
From: IBMMAIL%CFSAN8.BITNET@uwavm.u.washington.edu
To: billcat@u.washington.edu
Subject: MSG FROM CFSAN GATEWAY

cfsan_gate:billcat@u.washington.edu
cfsan_gate_from:CFSAN8::MASTER_CAB
Comments: This is Gatewayed Mail from CFSAN_GATE.
          **WARNING*:  Mail may not be returnable using any "From:"
                       address specified in this message.
************************ ORIGINAL MAIL TEXT FOLLOWS **************************

From:   CFSAN8::MASTER_CAB   10-SEP-1992 10:06:29.35
To:     IBMMAIL
CC:
Subj:   forward

cfsan_gate:billcat@u.washington.edu
****************
PS:"DIDNOT WORK; CONTACT E-MAIL ADMIN FOR HELP"
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From:   IN%"billcat@u.washington.edu"  "Cory Sandahl"  9-SEP-1992 18:56:20.43
To:     IN%"VAXMAIL%FDACFSAN.BITNET@uwavm.u.washington.edu"
CC:
Subj:

Return-path: <billcat@milton.u.washington.edu>
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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:49:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Cory Sandahl <billcat@u.washington.edu>
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CFSAN_GATE: *Glen Sandahl@ofs.afdc@acf.sea

Dad, call me at work if and when you get this message.

-Cory