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From: RICH.GVT@office-3.ARPA (Rich Zellich)
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Subject: Re: electronic-mail "telephone directory"
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Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 03:26:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 29 03:26:00 1984
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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