Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mica.berkeley.edu!wisner From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: How do I find the domain of a friend? Message-ID: <30741@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 19 Aug 89 01:43:16 GMT References:<5446@inco.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: news Organization: Earl's Reptile Farm and Cheesy Dinosaur Park Lines: 14 >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.