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From: rjd@tiger.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Where can I find netnews users' add
Message-ID: <142700002@tiger.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 10:14:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 10:14:00 1987
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Nf-From: tiger.UUCP!rjd    May 29 09:14:00 1987


>  Hi,
>    I'm trying to get a hold of a friend working at Raytheon Submarine
>Signal Division.  Part of the address is !rayssd!userid (userid would
>of course be substituted by my friend's id).  Our mail command uses the
>form: mailx  address.  I typed:  mailx !rayssd!userid, then typed in
                                        ^
>my message and ended the session.  A few minutes latter I received a
>mail that said my message was not sent.  With the mail command is an
>Internet format option.  Using this produced identical results.  This
>leads me to believe my address is not elaborate enough.  Any help
>would be greatly appreciated.
>                                          Thanks in advance,
>                                          Frank Phillips

  Uh, how about leaving off the leading '!' ???  (...and make sure that
your system knows about "rayssd", possibly by doing a 'uuname' command.)

Randy Davis
(ihnp4!)3b2fst!randy