rhk@harpo.UUCP (Rich Kensicki) (11/30/83)
Has there every been a standard for contacting administrators on unknown machines? Should there be one?
barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) (12/01/83)
Has there every been a standard for contacting administrators on unknown machines? Should there be one? On the Defense Data Network (DDN, nee Arpanet) there are a couple of standards. POSTMASTER is an address which gets you people in charge of mail. LIAISON gets you the site DDN liaison (the Usenet analog would be the contact person listed in a newsite announcement). Many Unix(tm) sites use the convention that mail to "root" gets read by appropriate system administrators (I recently used this to find out the userid of someon who I only knew by name). -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar