campbell@maynard.UUCP (09/11/87)
I recently received mail from someone at Xerox who replied to a posting
of mine. All my attempts to reply to this mail bounced. I cannot find
Xerox in the UUCP map. A friend of mine at another site has also had
trouble mailing to Xerox.
(1) Does anyone know how to get mail to Xerox? The address I have
looks like:
Joe_User@OsbuSouth.Xerox.Com
(2) If Xerox has a UUCP gateway, why aren't they in the UUCP map?
Anyone at Xerox out there?
--
Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.bsw.com 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
uucp: {husc6,mirror,think}!maynard!campbell +1 617 367 6846taylor@hplabsz.UUCP (09/11/87)
Larry Campbell asks for a path to Xerox, specifically to:
> Joe_User@OsbuSouth.Xerox.Com
As it turns out, Xerox has a pretty nifty addressing scheme that predated
the domains junk in the ARPA world:
<user>@<division-abbreviation-or-name>.XEROX.COM
and they're on the ARPAnet too, so you can address mail to you local
ARPA host and thence from there. For example:
...ucbarpa!Joe_User%OsbuSouth.Xerox.Com@Xerox.Com
should work. A preferred address, however, would be:
...ucbarpa!Xerox.Com!OsbuSouth.Xerox.Com!Joe_User
(this avoids the "!" versus "@" precedence problem, but I'm not sure if
the Xerox gateway will translate this into the appropriate format)
They ain't in the UUCP maps 'cause they ain't a UUCP site.
-- Dave Taylor
taylor@hplabs.HP.COMdw@rocksanne.UUCP (09/12/87)
In article <988@maynard.BSW.COM>, campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) writes: > (1) Does anyone know how to get mail to Xerox? The address I have > looks like: > > Joe_User@OsbuSouth.Xerox.Com > > (2) If Xerox has a UUCP gateway, why aren't they in the UUCP map? The primary way to send mail to people at Xerox is via the Arpanet. Xerox.Com is our Arpanet gateway. The two main mail systems are Grapevine and NS (our product mail system). Grapevine addresses are of the the form: User.Registry To reach such addresses from the Arpanet you may use an address of the form: User.Registry@Xerox.COM Larry's example should read Joe_User.OsbuSouth@Xerox.Com NS addresses are of the form: User:Domain:Organization where any of the three fields may contain spaces (though in mail going out onto the Arpanet these may be translated to '_'). To reach these addresses from the Arpanet you may use an address of the form: "User:Domain:Organization".NS@Xerox.COM For example, to reach my NS account you can mail to: "Wegeng:Wbst207V:Xerox".NS@Xerox.COM The quotes are very important. Further details and help can be obtained from Postmaster@Xerox.COM. We also have a few UUCP sites, the two major ones being 'parcvax' and 'rocksanne'. Both have entries in the UUCP map. There is no public mail gateway between UUCP and GV or NS mail. The above discussion leaves out a lot of details that shouldn't matter to most people. If you have problems contact Postmaster@Xerox.COM. /Don -- "I'll be half way to heaven, with paradise waiting Just five miles away from wherever I am." -- John Prine Don Wegeng Wegeng.Henr@Xerox.COM rutgers!rochester!rocksanne!dw