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!ROODE@sri-nic.ARPA From: ROODE@sri-nic.ARPA (David Roode) Newsgroups: net.mail.msggroup Subject: Re: electronic-mail "telephone directory" Message-ID: <346@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 03:36:23 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.346 Posted: Wed Feb 29 03:36:23 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 07:26:44 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 13 To: speck@cit-vax, MsgGroup@brl In-Reply-To: Message from "Don Speck" of Tue 28 Feb 84 23:35:17-PST Location: EJ286 Phone: (415) 859-2774 You can access the NIC database of MILNET and ARPANET users via a TCP connection to port 43 decimal on SRI-NIC as described in RFC812. Various types of search qualifications are available including mailbox name across all sites and specific mailbox as well as site name. We are interested in specific suggestions for improvements to this server. If you do not have a capability to access this server from your site, you can telnet to SRI-NIC and use the command "WHOIS" which is available without need for login. A help message for this program is available as HLP:WHOIS.HLP from SRI-NIC (via FTP under the ANONYMOUS login convention). -------