From: utzoo!decvax!duke!ndd
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: address query answered
Article-I.D.: duke.2528
Posted: Mon Sep 13 13:48:46 1982
Received: Tue Sep 14 05:31:13 1982

The following is the most general and informative response that I received
to my question on strange addresses. Thanks to everyone who responded.


>From allegra!honey Thu Sep  9 22:37:20 1982
Date-Sent: Thu Sep  9 22:32:19 1982
To: mhtsa!eagle!harpo!duke!ndd
Subject: strange addresses (duke.2519 followup)

you have to figure out the host:  due to the ambiguity of mixed prefix/postfix
addressing schemes, this is a nontrivial task; you'll have to decide based on
the header or contents of the note you're responding to.  in this case, your
correspondent is either cca!jacob or jacob@NRL-CSS (more likely the latter).
if you decide the host is cca, find a path to it (through decvax?  harpo?) and
send it normally.  if you decide it's the arpa site, send the mail to
ucbvax!jacob@NRL-CSS.
	peter honeyman

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