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From: reid@decwrl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: *.dec.com
Message-ID: <4208@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 01:58:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: decwrl.4208
Posted: Thu Jul 17 01:58:40 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jul-86 00:53:59 EDT
References: <4207@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
Organization: DEC Western Research, Palo Alto, California
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In article <4207@decwrl.DEC.COM> covert@covert.dec.com (John R. Covert) writes:
>I'm not sure what the above reply has to do with the question.  Our ARPA
>gateway always converts addresses for systems not in the ARPA host table
>to user%system.DEC.COM@DECWRL.DEC.COM.  The UUCP gateway converts addresses
>to decwrl!system.dec.com!user.  The address as shown above will never
>appear anywhere as a result of our gateways.  There are some sites outside
>DEC that "know" how to convert the domain info, and users at those places
>might use addresses in the above form, but they are not the "supported"
>form.
>
>So, to reach the above from the ARPAnet, send to thain%magic.dec.com.
>
>From UUCP use {ucbvax,allegra,decvax}!decwrl!magic.dec.com!thain

This is not entirely true, because magic.DEC.COM is not a VMS machine. Those
of us who work for DEC but who use Unix instead of VMS are constantly facing
this belief held by most of DEC that Vax==VMS. 

Anyhow, magic.DEC.COM is a Vax Unix machine in Palo Alto, at the DEC
Systems Research center. It is known by the DEC domain resolver, if you are
on the ARPAnet and know what that sentence means. 

From ARPAnet, send to thain@decwrl.DEC.COM
From uucp, send to {ihnp4,allegra,decvax,...}!decwrl!thain

(the longer address thain%magic.dec@decwrl.dec.com will also work)