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From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner)
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Subject: Re: How do I find the domain of a friend?
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Date: 19 Aug 89 01:43:16 GMT
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>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.

Bzzzz. Wrong answer. Not many institutions have established any kind of
centralized e-mail server. It is not safe to assume that CSUN has. (For
all I know, they may have done just that. But the quoted sentence seems
to say that you can send mail to anyone, anywhere, through some handy
server machine. Wrong.)

>     If not, you'll need to find out which host she has an account
>on and send mail to "username@hostname.csun.edu".

Ding ding ding.