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From: taylor@hplabsz.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Path to, or map entry for, Xerox wanted
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Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 12:15:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 12:15:54 1987
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Larry Campbell asks for a path to Xerox, specifically to:

>		Joe_User@OsbuSouth.Xerox.Com

As it turns out, Xerox has a pretty nifty addressing scheme that predated
the domains junk in the ARPA world:

	<user>@<division-abbreviation-or-name>.XEROX.COM

and they're on the ARPAnet too, so you can address mail to you local
ARPA host and thence from there.  For example:

	...ucbarpa!Joe_User%OsbuSouth.Xerox.Com@Xerox.Com

should work.  A preferred address, however, would be:

	...ucbarpa!Xerox.Com!OsbuSouth.Xerox.Com!Joe_User

(this avoids the "!" versus "@" precedence problem, but I'm not sure if 
 the Xerox gateway will translate this into the appropriate format)

They ain't in the UUCP maps 'cause they ain't a UUCP site.

					-- Dave Taylor

					taylor@hplabs.HP.COM