Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!bionet!apple!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!noao!arizona!amethyst!rsm From: rsm@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (Robert Maier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: amusing use of a Sun at NeXT, Inc. Message-ID: <843@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> Date: 7 Nov 88 08:37:47 GMT Sender: news@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu Organization: Dept. of Math., Univ. of Arizona; Tucson, AZ 85721 Lines: 33 I recently talked to the SMTP server at next.com, NeXT Inc.'s flagship Internet machine. The session transcript was as follows. onyx$ telnet next.com smtp Trying 129.18.1.2 ... Connected to next.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 NeXT.COM Sendmail 4.0/NeXT0.3-Aleph ready at Mon, 7 Nov 88 14:32:13 PST HELP 214-Commands: 214- HELO MAIL RCPT DATA RSET 214- NOOP QUIT HELP VRFY EXPN 214-For more info use "HELP ". 214-smtp 214-To report bugs in the implementation contact Sun Microsystems 214-Technical Support. 214-For local information contact postmaster at this site. 214 End of HELP info QUIT 221 NeXT.COM closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. To judge by the ``To report bugs in the implementation contact Sun Microsystems'', they're using a Sun! Either that or they're poking fun at a competitor. :-) -- Robert S. Maier SNAIL: Dept. of Math.; Univ. of Arizona; Tucson, AZ 85721; USA VOICE: +1 602 621 6893 / +1 602 621 2617 UUCP: ..{allegra,cmcl2,hao!noao}!arizona!amethyst!rsm BITNET: maier@arizrvax INTERNET: rsm@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu