Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!ames!elroy!jane!stevo From: stevo@jane.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Steve Groom) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: how to get information about usernames at remoteareas Keywords: username Message-ID: <9549@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 20 Sep 88 18:43:22 GMT References: <3979@bsu-cs.UUCP> <6516@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: news@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov Reply-To: stevo@jane.jpl.nasa.gov (Steve Groom) Distribution: na Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL Lines: 19 In article <6516@dasys1.UUCP> jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes: >In article <3979@bsu-cs.UUCP> mysore@bsu-cs.UUCP (Swamy Bale) writes: >> ... [ wants to know how to get in touch with friend at another school ] >... >So write to college!bigshot and ask if there's a login name there for your >friend littleshot, in which case you've got his address, college!littleshot. Might I make a suggestion here.... Perhaps instead of asking the SA at your friend's machine for your friend's login name, you could call up your friend and ask him directly? Especially if you are still in touch with him. Please consider this approach before contacting the SA. -steve /* Steve Groom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109 * Internet: stevo@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov UUCP: {ames,cit-vax}!elroy!stevo * Disclaimer: (thick German accent) "I know noothingg! Noothingg!" */