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- From: quodling@stimpy.enet.dec.com
- Subject: Re: How do you reach DEC employees via email?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.173827.1@stimpy.enet.dec.com>
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- Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: SPR Alpha Resource Centre
- References: <1992Nov17.221615.23774@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:38:27 GMT
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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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