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From: dbilar@antares.UUCP (Dave Bilar)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I find the domain of a friend?
Summary: In addition to Dave Mack's reply...
Keywords: comp.mail.maps
Message-ID: <477@antares.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 89 18:14:04 GMT
References:  <5446@inco.UUCP>
Reply-To: dbilar@antares.UUCP (Dave Bilar)
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In article <5446@inco.UUCP> mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes:
>In article  raulmill@usc.edu (Raul) writes:
>>I have a friend who goes to another school (Cal State University,
>>Northridge)

>From UUCP map u.usa.ca.1:
>    #N	csun.edu, csun
>    #O	California State University, Northridge	(CSUN)
>    #C	Larry Wake
>    #E	postmaster@csun.edu
[...]
>    #U	polyslo	csuchico csusac	csustan	sdsu csuf3b fedeva dcrlg1 srhqla
[...]

Notice how many sites in #U above have "csu" as part of ther names?
The CSU maintains a net linking its campuses.  If you can find a link
from usc to csu[xxxx] your mail will move rather quickly over dedicated
lines, once it reaches CSU-NET (or whatever they call it.)  A quick scan
of u.usa.ca.1[thru 10] for "csun" with your favorite editor is certainly
called for.  If you search for your site's name, you may find a neighbor
site which is already connected to csun.  Who knows?

>The UUCP maps are posted to newsgroup comp.mail.maps and are probably
>the single most valuable source of information about how to contact
>other sites,    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[...]

Hear! Hear!         (here! here!  ?????) :-)

>
>Since you're on the Internet, all you need to do is send mail to
>"username@csun.edu" and if they have a name server it should get to
>her. If not, you'll need to find out which host she has an account
>on and send mail to "username@hostname.csun.edu".
>

I have found it time well spent, although very time consuming, to
subscribe to comp.mail.maps, and create a KILL file of all the maps I'm
not interested in.  This takes quite some time, and can be easily be done
as a "background" process at times when your boss isn't looking. :-)
This is easy for me thanks to windowing software or using two CRT's.
(Be sure to switch yourself back to the foreground process before too long!)
Once I got the KILL file created, only the *.ca articles got through
(plus a few more from a time when I wanted to find a university in Ohio...
I'll have to re-kill the Ohio maps next time.)  It takes some time to go
through an entire world of "new" articles in comp.mail.maps, killing each
one, but the result outweighs the problem.  

Good Luck...

>>--
>>Raul Rockwell                                      |
>>INTERNET:   raulmill@usc.edu                       |
>>UUCP:       ...uunet!usc!raulmill                  |  55 mph = 82 nc
>>U.S.SNAIL:  721 E Windsor #4,  GLENDALE CA  91205  |
>
>Your signature is broken, Raul. Try again.

...not if one uses the Kill function of their editor...:-)

>
>-- 
>Dave Mack

Hey Dave--Got any openings over there? :-(

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