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- 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>
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- 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
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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).
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- 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.
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- Inform the postmaster on the machine that is returning this error message
- that it should be fixed.
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- Fred
-