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In article <41000010@umbio> solejni@umbio.UUCP writes:
>
>Paul, I would be grateful for assistance with mailing mail to system
>HASARA5, in Netherlands.  I have no knowledge of e-mail, so if you could
>recoommend a source of published information/guidelines/tutorial, I would
>be most grateful.  Thanks.

This is an embarrassing question.  Or, better to say that it has an
embarrassing answer.  You cannot go to a bookstore, or to your UNIX
manuals, or to any doc file supplied with most UNIX systems, and expect
to find out anything about how the mail network works.

There are some useful tutorials on the subject available from as
"Nutshell Handbooks", available from "O'Reilly & Associates, Inc;
981 Chestnut Street; Newton, Massachusetts, 02164".  These are
helpful but cannot be definitive or complete, given the nature
of the subject.

Most topics are up in the air, highly subject to local preference.

The definitive (but as I said above, neccessarily incomplete) treatment
are in RFC's, which mean "Request For Comment", which are actually far
more than that -- they become the standards, not just "Requests".  (If
someone more knowledgable than I wants to comment further on the nature
of RFC's, I'd love to read it!).

RFC text is available via anonymous FTP from the SRI NIC, where NIC is
"Network Information Center"; they are the closest thing Internet has
to management.  If you don't have FTP access (don't feel bad, this is
common :-(), you can get some of the more important RFC's in the source
kit for Sendmail (if you have source code), or in the source kit for
SMAIL (available from a mod.sources archive), or in the archives of the
(defunct?) mod.sources.doc group, where the RFCs were posted several
years back.

As to your specific question, there is a site called "lhasa" which I
believe is in the Netherlands; mail to "lhasa!postmaster" to find out
more -- I don't know if they're the site you want, but they will :-).

According to my pathalias database (which comes from data posted every
couple of months to the comp.mail.maps group), "lhasa" talks to "harvard"
which I know talks to "ames".  If you know a path or a route to "ames",
then sending mail to yourpathtoames!ames!harvard!lhasa!postmaster will
probably get you what you want; if you are on the DARPA Internet, then
postmaster@lhasa%harvard.harvard.edu will probably work.

As you can see, you are largely on your own.  Good luck.

-- 
Paul A Vixie Esq
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