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In article <40897@think.Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
> Given current email addressing technology, how would you send email to the
> VP of Marketing of Thinking Machines Corporation, not knowing his name,
> login name, nor the domain name of our computer?

How would you send physical mail to this person? You have to look up
Thinking Machines Corporation in a directory somewhere. The same is true
of electronic mail.

As for the individual's identity, that's going to need human interaction
to send it to the right slot (Is that VP of Marketing, VP of Sales, or
what? Different companies have different sets of titles), so you send it
to Postmaster at the listed site and let him figure out who is meant. If
Email is important enough that the VP of marketing is available, then it'll
work. If not, you're lost either way.

How would you use X.400 to address the VP of Marketing at Thinking Machines
Corporation? OK, how would you use it to address the SPE for UPL at Ferranti?
What's an SPE? What does UPL mean in this context? I'm not going to tell
you... surely X.400 can figure that out.
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