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From: mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: how the world can work without domains
Message-ID: <5211@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 23:11:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: allegra.5211
Posted: Fri Oct  4 23:11:34 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 14:39:30 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Here's one of those interesting diversions that occur when most of the
nouns in the known universe can be preceded with "MIT-" or some other
prefix and yield the name of a computer:

(uw-eddie was on the internet long before mit-eddie, so it claimed the
nickname "eddie" in the NIC host table (which is fascinating reading,
by the way; check it out to see why both sites happened to choose the
name "eddie"))

From: jim@mit-athena (Jim Fulton)
Subject: For your enjoyment about mailer configurations.

Below is a copy of piece of mail that was sent to me.  Ironically, it
managed to actually get to the right place.  As far as I can figure, the 
following happened:

	1.  a letter to me was addressed on MIT-XX to "jim@eddie" by mistake
		(it should have been addressed to "fulton@mit-eddie" or
		"jim@athena").

	2.  the mailer at MIT-XX parsed that into jim@uw-eddie.arpa
		instead of jim@mit-eddie.arpa.

	3.  the person with the account "jim" at UW-EDDIE has his
		mail forwarded to "jim@apollo".

	4.  the mailer at UW-EDDIE then parsed APOLLO into MIT-APOLLO
		and sent the mail back to MIT.

	5.  I then managed to receive the mail through MIT-APOLLO and 
		everything worked out okay.  I know that mailers don't always
		take the most optimal route, but....


 **** the mail message as I got it ****

>From MERLIN@mit-xx.arpa Mon Aug 26 14:10:42 1985
Received: from ATHENA (1003a12) by MIT-ZEUS (4.12/4.7)
	id AA17327; Mon, 26 Aug 85 14:10:37 edt
Received: from MIT-APOLLO (MIT-APOLLO.MIT.EDU) by ATHENA (4.12/4.7)
	id AA14668; Mon, 26 Aug 85 14:10:33 edt
Received: from uw-eddie.arpa (60805c0) by MIT-APOLLO (4.12/4.7)
	id AA10686; Mon, 26 Aug 85 14:10:34 edt
Received: from MIT-XX.ARPA by uw-eddie.arpa (4.42/3.2D)
	id AA13109; Mon, 26 Aug 85 11:11:53 PDT
Return-Path: <MERLIN@mit-xx.arpa>
Message-Id: <8508261811.AA13109@uw-eddie.arpa>
Date: Mon 26 Aug 85 14:09:13-EDT
From: James D. McNamara <MERLIN@mit-xx.arpa>
Subject: line busy
To: jim@uw-eddie.arpa
Cc: fulton@uw-eddie.arpa

	message....



 **** and then, the result of saying finger jim@uw-eddie.arpa ****

% finger jim@uw-eddie.arpa

[UW-EDDIE.ARPA]
*** Mail automatically forwarded to jim@apollo ***
executing a local finger:
Login name: jim       			In real life: Jim Rees
Office: 408 Sieg,  x5-0912		Home phone: 523-9058
Directory: /u1/jim                  	Shell: /bin/csh
Group: eden
Never logged in
No Plan.
[jim@mit-apollo.arpa]

...	**** does a finger of jim@mit-apollo.arpa


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