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From: jthomp@hemaneh.Central.Sun.COM (Jim Thompson  Sun Dallas IR)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: e-mail to Sun Microsystems
Keywords: sales offices
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Date: 20 Apr 89 20:23:35 GMT
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In article <888@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes:
>In dealing with the Sun Microsystems sales office in Cincinnati, Ohio,
>I have found the local sales rep to be unable to communicate via e-mail.
>He speaks of an e-mail system that ties his office to the rest of
>Sun, but he does not know how to route e-mail to uucp or Internet sites.
>
>Will any of the network honchos at Sun Microsystems be so kind as to
>illuminate us on the workings of the Sun corporate network? In particular,
>can I use it to route mail to sales reps?


Gee, right up my alley.  

Sun Microsystems operates a world wide network called SWAN
(Sun Wide Area Network).  Most of the bigger sales offices inside
Sun are either on SWAN or soon will be.  For those offices not on
SWAN, email is supported via uucp.  To reach a person at any Sun
office, you should be able to do one of:  (order of preference)

1)  Mail firstinitiallastname@Sun.COM  (For instance, I'm jthompson@Sun.COM.)
    This breaks down sometimes due to duplicate aliases.  (I'm one, I'm not
    really jthompson@Sun.  If you get one of these you'll get a mail message
    back with a list of suggestions, and their locations.  (I'm really 
    jthomp@sun.com.)  

2)  Get their login/alias and the name of their mailhost.  (suncin,
    in this case.  Mail to suncin!user@Sun.COM.  
    
Sun maintains an Internet connection, so 
he should be able to reach you at dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU.

Hoping this wasn't too comercial..

Jim Thompson					 	jthomp@central.sun.com
"I woudn't recommend sex, drugs, or insanity 	 	Network Engineering
for everyone, but they've always worked for me."	Sun Microsystems
			-- Hunter S. Thompson