DEC Email Addresses (was Re: electronic SPR)

[Jeff Michaud]

> Finally, I've had pretty good luck with sending E-mail to people inside
> DEC, including the support center people.  All of DEC internal seems to
> be on a flat addressed net called E-net.  If your system supports domain
> style addresses and you want to send mail to person at node, then mail to
> person at node.dec.com works.  If not, then you need to go thru one of the
> gateways, either decuac or decwrl.  In this case, adresses of the form
> ...!decuac!node.dec.com!person or ...!decuac!node.enet!person seem to
> work.  If your system can be accessed by a domain style address, they have
> no problem sending mail back to you, otherwise you may have a problem...

	FWIW, the new syntax is

		person at node.enet.dec.com

	BTW, E-net (which is short for Easynet, but used to stand for
	Engineering Net a long time ago) is, for the most part, DEC's
	internal DECnet network (30,000+ nodes in size as last officially
	reported).

	Also, decwrl is the prefered gateway to/from the easynet ...
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