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From: chen@gitpyr.UUCP (Ray Chen)
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Subject: Re: Apology to Terry Ridder
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 02:20:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 22 02:20:08 1985
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In article <998@lll-crg.ARpA>, bandy@lll-crg.ARpA (Andrew Scott Beals) writes:
> I would like to take this opportunity to formally extend my
> apologies to Terry L. Ridder (tlr@mimsy.umd.edu) and his family for
> insinuating that their home machines (bilbo and wiretap) and any
> association with any Federal agency (the NSA in this case).

Hey, Terry,

I know for a fact that "bilbo" already exists.  There's an NCR Tower in
the basement of the Engineering Quad at Princeton Univ.  named "bilbo"
in honor of the President of the University, the man who got us the
grant that got us the machine -- William (Bill) Bowen.

Seems to me, you've got two choices:

Rename your machine (for the sake of those who want to send mail to
bilbo!terry and use pathalias) or establish your own sub-domain
(for the sake of domain-based mailers) so we can all send mail
to terry@bilbo.!ARPA.TERRY'S-HOUSE.

(Does RFC822 allows 's in domain-names?  Maybe BASEMENT might be a better
name.)


	Ray Chen
	gitpyr!chen

Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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