From: rustman@netcom.com (Rusty Hodge)
Date: Sat, 7 May 94 06:48:45 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Nalbandian's email address
Message-ID: <199405071348.GAA08570@netcom.netcom.com>
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At  4:44 AM 5/7/94 -0400, wcs@anchor.ho.att.com
(bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510 wrote:
>Jim Nalbandian, who's recently been posting to cypherpunks,
>has a signature line that contains a couple of *severely* non-portable
>addresses; I have no way to tell whether my email to him worked
>on the netcomish address.  Don't know about his spelling errors,
>but his addressing errors distinctly *are* international....
                           ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't understand what you mean by the above.

I think the correct address would be just jim%lassie@netcom.com, which is a
UUCP connection to netcom.

Connected to netcomsv.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-netcomsv.netcom.com Sendmail 8.6.4/SMI-4.1 ready at Sat, 7 May 1994 03:05:00
220 ESMTP spoken here
250 <test@netcomsv.netcom.com>
expn netcomsv!nonexisting!addr   #test a bogus addr to see error message
501 netcomsv!nonexisting!addr... nonexisting is an unknown UUCP connection
expn netcomsv!lassie!jim%lassie@netcom.com
250 <jim%lassie@netcomsv.netcom.com>


>I  got an interesting bouncegram from Namibia when I tried using
>the N7SZS@K7BUC.AZ.US.NA address - it's some sort of Amateur packet radio
>address, which has a syntax similar to Internet addresses but
>rips off the .na namespace

The Hams have implemented TCP/IP over the air, using the airwaves as a sort
of ethernet (albiet slowly).  Works quite well.  However, these addresses
are not internet addresses, and the Ham network has very important
FCC-mandated restrictions on message content.  (No encrypting, no
commercial traffic, no explicit or oobscene stuff).  Don't confuse this
with the UUCP city.state.us domains.

If you see a user or site name such as [KN]*[1-9]*  (e.g. N7SZS or K7BUC),
recognize that as a ham call sign and assume that it is a tcp/ip packet
network.

--
Rusty Hodge <rustman@netcom.com>