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From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: decommissioning of nicknames
Message-ID: <1095@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Sep-86 15:35:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: im4u.1095
Posted: Mon Sep 15 15:35:59 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Sep-86 21:21:13 EDT
References: <566@mecc.UUCP> <2502@cbosgd.UUCP> <3920@ut-ngp.UUCP> <3945@ut-ngp.UUCP> <3340@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
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In article <3340@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In this new scheme of things, if I understand aright, you who are
>on the host that will be called `ngp.utexas.edu' will be able to
>refer to other `.utexas.edu' sites, e.g., the one now known as
>ut-sally, using what you might consider your basic alias.  Simply
>saying `send mail to jsq@sally' will work for you.  I, in the land
>of `.umd.edu', will have to use `mail jsq@sally.utexas.edu'---which
>address you too may use.  Indeed, this `fully qualified' name will
>work from anywhere in the Internet:  That is its very reason for
>existence.

They've been ngp.utexas.edu and sally.utexas.edu for many months:
ut-sally is just sally's UUCP name.  Abbreviations are supported locally.

Incidentally, I no longer work for UTCS nor am I currently the
domain or network administrator there.

Some of you may find this of interest:

%A John S. Quarterman
%A Josiah C. Hoskins,
%T Notable Computer Networks
%J Communications of the ACM
%I Association for Computing Machinery
%V 29
%N 10
%P 45pp.
%C New York, NY
%D October 1986
-- 
John Quarterman, UUCP:  {gatech,harvard,ihnp4,pyramid,seismo}!ut-sally!im4u!jsq
ARPA Internet and CSNET:  jsq@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU, jsq@sally.UTEXAS.EDU