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>
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Reply-To: rcj@moss.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
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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!"