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From: ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: configurable delimiters needed in aliases file for x.400 address
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Date: 24 Jul 90 07:32:27 GMT
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mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:

> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:

>> What the Net needs is Directory Assistance -- an automated entity to
>> ask for machine addresses.

> [sample session with Net DA deleted]

> If you're on the Internet, you can already do something like this.  Try
> telnet'ing to nic.ddn.mil and using the WHOIS server.  It will do
> searches such as you describe.

A rather comprehensive 'yellow pages' can be found by telnet'ing
jade.berkeley.edu 117.  This service produces extracts from the
uucp maps, NIC entries, etc.  Lots of information on hosts.

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