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Re: Still trying to get to Fidonet

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From: Matt Caprile
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 22:30
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dickey@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Bill Dickey) writes:
>I am sending to the fidonet address sister.name@p17.n3400.z1.fidonet.org.  
>Everything seems to work fine, except that my sister is not receiving the
>mail.

You're leaving part of the address out. A fidonet address looks like :
   john smith at 1:2/3.4

(where 1, 2, 3, and 4 would be replaced by the proper numbers for the
node) and the Internet email address to get there would be
   john.smith@p4.f3.n2.z1

you are missing the "f" part of the address.

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From: mfc@medoc.aux.apple.com (Matt Caprile)
Subject: Re: Still trying to get to Fidonet
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:30:40 GMT
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Organization: A/UX Group, Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Keywords: Fidonet
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