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Article #3796Re: How do you reach DEC employees via email?
From: quodling
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:38
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:38
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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.
>
You won't be able to Finger them, the gateway should block that, however email
should work. If it doesn't your local system, probably doesn't have it's
domain's set up properly.
can you ftp to gatekeeper.dec.com? If you can't even get that far, then you
don't know about decwrl, which is the dec gateway, and a major backbone site of
the Internet...
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