Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rcj@moss.ATT.COM From: rcj@moss.ATT.COM Newsgroups: news.newsites Subject: Re: marvin Message-ID: <33902@clyde.ATT.COM> Date: 28 Sep 88 15:40:01 GMT References: <2141@stpstn.UUCP> Sender: lp@clyde.ATT.COM Reply-To: rcj@moss.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ Lines: 19 In article <2141@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes: }Att, in their infinite wisdom, list a marvin in their entry. When, oh }WHEN will that att brain-damage stop and these hundreds of machines }domainified? A friend, who works for Bellcore in Morristown, NJ, is on machine "thumper" there. The internal "netdir" command on AT&T's Datakit network told me that I could get to thumper over the Datakit network. I was amazed that I could get to a Bellcore computer over AT&T's own network, so I tried the destination it gave me, to no avail. I finally sent mail to the person who maintains netdir, and he informed me that the "thumper" that was on Datakit was a laser printer. :-( Machine att (the main gateway) can handle domainized addresses, so maybe it is only a matter of time before the powers what be at AT&T convert fully to domainized addresses in their map entry. Curtis Jackson -- att!moss!rcj 201-386-6409 "In skydiving, if at first you don't succeed -- that's it!"