Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!RICH.GVT@office-3.ARPA From: RICH.GVT@office-3.ARPA (Rich Zellich) Newsgroups: net.mail.msggroup Subject: Re: electronic-mail "telephone directory" Message-ID: <[OFFICE-3]GVT-RICH-476C0> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 03:26:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.345 Posted: Wed Feb 29 03:26:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 07:26:25 EST References: <8402290404.AA01100@cit-vax.ARPA> Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 14 To: Don SpeckCc: MsgGroup@brl In-Reply-To: <8402290404.AA01100@cit-vax.ARPA> There is also, of long standing, the ARPANET Network Information Center Query system. You can connect to the SRI-NIC host (0/73 or 10.0.0.73) and give the login/command NICQUERY. That will drop you into an interactive program tht lets you ask about ANY resource on the ARPANET/MilNet - users, hosts, TACs, software, etc. There is also the NIC-provided WHOIS program, that interacts across a network connection with the NIC's user data base. A copy of WHOIS is available free from the NIC for at least Tenex, TOPS-20, and Unix systems. For more information, try a copy of the ARPANET Resource Handbook or ARPANET Directory, if you can find one of them locally, or send netmail to NIC@SRI-NIC. -Rich