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Re: Inter-Network Mail Guide

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From: Tim Goodwin
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 15:48
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C.V.Copas@lut.ac.uk writes:

>Well it doesn't SEEM to be a FAQ, so here goes. I wish to get mail to an
>Australian machine
>which I can verify is on the Internet by using <nslookup>. However, all my mail
>vanishes into oblivion without any feedback to myself. Nor am I able to <ping>
>the machine. Therefore, I have reasoned that I need to supply a routing node
>specification, yes?

No.  This is the 1990s.  If you need to supply an explicit route,
something's broken.

If you let me know the address, I'll see if I can find out what the
problem is.  BTW, I assume you did get in touch with your local
postmaster first?

Tim.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!unipalm!tim
From: tim@unipalm.co.uk (Tim Goodwin)
Subject: Re: Inter-Network Mail Guide
Message-ID: <1992Nov4.154823.17883@unipalm.co.uk>
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
References: <1992Nov3.144316.28665@lut.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 15:48:23 GMT
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