budd@arizona.UUCP (07/29/83)
Is there a SHORT concise list of who is on the net? Like a "phone book" with
say ONE LINE per site, listing real name, machine name, perhaps who they
talk to, and even perhaps administrator (so you have at least one valid
name to mail to, if you don't know exactly how to reach the person you want).
for example:
University of Arizona {utah-cs, ucbvax, purdue}|arizona|whm
This format would be short enough that you could keep it (unlike the huge
lists that get emitted intermitantly), but still has enough information that,
for example, if you want to get from X to Y you can (with a bit of work)
figure out how to do it. I don't have enough information to create such
a list. Does anybody? Does anybody want to? Will anybody?reo@teltone (R.E. Overby) (08/01/83)
I vote for a dictionary, too. As a newcomer to UN*X, the addressing schemes seem arbitrary and capricious but a dictionary would help. It seems that the elitists in ARPANET probably would regard it as a breech of security ****sort of making public Nancy Regan's age or something! Not afraid of the big bad ARPA, Bob Overby !uw-beaver!teltone!reo