fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell) (02/28/84)
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While visiting my fiance in Champaign-Urbana over the weekend, I
was helping her get started on UNIX. She has a recently opened
vax account. Apparently, you run Berkeley UNIX there, so I was
not familiar with all the commands. That's not my problem, though.
I was trying to find a way for us to send messages back and forth.
I found that the 'mail' command there would barf every time I tried
to send mail to my UNIX id here in Naperville, but it would send
mail locally. I also discovered that the netnews available on the
uiucdcs system was an abbreviated version, apparently confined to
articles submitted locally. My hypotheseis is that some UNIX ids
(maybe most) on your system are restricted as to mail privileges.
Is this true? If not, how can she send mail to me? I tried the
sequence,
mail ihnp4\!ihu1g\!fish
The mail command there doesn't work like the one I'm used to, so I
may not have entered the uupath name correctly.
Please don't post followups to net, just send me replies. If I hear
nothing at all, I'll presume my hypotheseis is true. But how do you
folks at uiucdcs get stuff on the net?
--
Bob Fishell
ihnp4!ihu1g!fish