[net.followup] who is listed in the ARPANET directory

root@vortex.UUCP (The Superuser) (12/12/84)

To be listed in the directory (e.g. the White House) you do not
have to have an actual host.  Many of the listings are simply for
"associates," which means that they may dial in to one host or
another once in a blue moon (if at all).

--Lauren--