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Article #3789Re: How do you reach DEC employees via email?
From: Frederick M. Avolio
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:54
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:54
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In article <1992Nov17.221615.23774@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, grusin@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GRUSIN MICHAEL) writes:
>I have some friends that work at DEC who have given me email addresses
>("person@machine.enet.dec.com"), but my school machine always responds
>with "host not known" when I try and email or finger them.
>
>Is there some special way to get through to "enet"?
>Is there a special address format I'm not using?
>(Don't flame, I'm still learning this stuff).
Whatever machine you are using is broken. It should be using the DNS for
resolving the address and if it did it would get mail exchanger records
to use to send the mail.
Inform the postmaster on the machine that is returning this error message
that it should be fixed.
Fred
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!decuac!decuac!avolio From: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) Subject: Re: How do you reach DEC employees via email? Message-ID: <1992Nov18.145404.20060@decuac.dec.com> Lines: 19 Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: gildor.dco.dec.com Reply-To: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center References: <1992Nov17.221615.23774@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:54:04 GMT