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From: gjm@ihnp4.UUCP (Gary J. Murakami)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Mail addressing and routing (people name servers)
Message-ID: <849@ihnp4.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 13:28:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 13:28:19 1985
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ihnp4 currently expects addresses in the form ihnp4!first.last in order
to access the corporate directory as a nameservice.

There is no guarantee that this will work at any given time since the
directory periodically changes without notice.  I've had some ideas
for years on how to allow more exact specification of people
information, but I haven't had the time to do any implementing.

FYI, as Peter and Lauren (thanks for the appreciation) have mentioned,
I'm leaving Comp Center Networking Department at Indian Hill to go to
New Jersey to work on Datakit Exploratory Development in
Piscataway/Liberty Corners.

I hope to transition most of the ihnp4 related work to several other
people (details to follow).  I'm hoping that the level of service will
not degrade to much, and I'll probably try to pitch in where necessary. 
However most of the postmaster queries will be answer by other people or
by form letter.

-Gary (still reachable via ihnp4!gjm)


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