On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Jim Gerland wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Dick Duggan wrote:
>
> > When I tried to do a review on this list, the owner information came
> > out like this:
> >
> > *  Owner=  ERIC@SEARN       (Eric Thomas)
> > *  Owner=  Quiet:
> > *  Owner=  HAROLD@UGA       (Harold C. Pritchett)
> >
> > I've seen this sort of syntax for an email address before but it's
> > not a real email address, only part of one.
>
> > How does that work?  If
> > I wanted to send email to Eric or Harold, how would I know their
> > address from the above?

Eric's address would be [log in to unmask] (if you are in Europe, mail
to this list is addressed to [log in to unmask]). I do not know what
Harold's address would be.

However, if you wanted to contact them as owners of the list, you could
send mail to the standard owner address [log in to unmask]
(or the North American peer, maybe [log in to unmask])

> LISTSERV began as a BITNET-only application and because of this treats
> any Non-FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) as a BITNET address and
> sends that mail off to its nearest Internet-to-BITNET gateway for
> delivery.

This is true. Am I right in thinking that you can send mail to any BITNET
node by sending it to [log in to unmask], eg. [log in to unmask] ? (This is
just out of interest; I am not a BITNET user, and I am just wondering if
it works like JANET names, ie. by adding .ac.uk to make Internet names).

John

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John Asher
Information Systems Manager, AIESEC United Kingdom
International AGIS Support Team Member
AIESEC LISTSERV Operations Manager
http://www.aiesec.org/uk/members/is/
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