sundar (12/09/82)
I am trying to get in touch with someone at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. I hear that they have a Dec-10 on ARPANET and a PDP-11/60 running Unix among other things. Could someone tell me how to contact anybody there (preferably the system administrator) on either of these systems? Thanks in advance. sudnar (correction: sundar) decvax!cwruecmp!sundar
smith@umn-cs.UUCP (06/06/83)
#R:cwruecmp:-32500:umn-cs:7400002:000:815 umn-cs!smith Dec 13 11:30:00 1982 I suspect that U Edinburgh isn't on the arpanet per se, but is actually on EPSS or some other university network on the UK. Originally you had to be authorized to reach a destination there, and I'm not even sure that mail delivery was automated. Hopefully they have improved things in the past few years, since it's a pain to manually control gateways. I heard a story a few years ago from Alex Mckenzie at BBN who spent a long time one day setting up a connection to someone over in Scotland via Arpanet and several UK gateways. When he finally reached his destination the distant host replied with a message like "Today is our educators' strike, everybody stayed home today, and so should you!" The host then sent a close command, which merrily closed gateway connections all the way back to Massachusetts.