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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: How do I get to domain .ac?
Message-ID: <420@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 06:28:37 EST
Article-I.D.: stracs.420
Posted: Fri Mar 13 06:28:37 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Mar-87 04:14:07 EST
References: <426@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
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In article <426@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU> steve@umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU (Steven M. Miller) writes:
>I've been trying to send off a note to   user@multics.bham.uk.ac, but
>none of supermailers* I've tried knows about them.  
>Can someone please help me out?

The address you have is incorrect. It should be "user@multics.bham.ac.uk"!
This should make sense to any smart mailer. What has probably happened is
either a mailer (or news system?) has munged the header or the user who
gave you the address got confused. Y'see, in the UK, the domain ordering
is the other way round - ie multics.bham.ac.uk becomes uk.ac.bham.multics!

Aren't standards wonderful?

		Jim

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"JANET domain ordering is swapped around so's there'd be some use for rev(1)!"