Re: E-mail access in South Africa ?

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From: Melvin Klassen
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 00:25

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In article <438@imp.diablery.10A.com> devil@diablery.10A.com (Gil Tene) writes:
>
>I'd like to know what form of e-mail access is openly available
>in South Africa. By "openly available" I don't meen "free", but
>rather "available without any excesive use restrictions" (such
>as "academia only", etc.). Something like what UUNET runs in the US.
>
Once again, NSLOOKUP to the rescue ...

Script started on Tue Apr 14 17:19:04 1992
> nslookup 
> set type=mx 
! Pick a "spurious" host-name.
> Gil-Tene.ZA. 
------------ 
Got answer: 
    QUESTIONS: 
        Gil-Tene.ZA, type = MX, class = IN 
    AUTHORITY RECORDS: 
    ->  ZA      origin = daisy.ee.und.ac.za 
!                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
! This is the top-level name-server for South Africa.
!
        mail addr = postmaster.ee.und.ac.za 
!                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
! This is the ID of the person who maintains the name-server.
------------ 
Failed: NXDOMAIN, num. answers = 0, ns = 1, additional = 0 
*** can't find Gil-Tene.ZA.: Non-existent domain 
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ :-)))

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Subject: Re: E-mail access in South Africa ?
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