Awatmath.1373
net.general
utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton
Mon Jan 4 21:13:20 1982
contact user names
First of all, I think this discussion, hopefully short, belongs here because
I was not so much thinking of this as something to help maintain the USENET,
but the UUCP network. As news administrator, I get requests from time to
time from people here of the form:
"I know John Doe at Blat university. How do I send him mail?"
Asuming I know the site name, and a uucp path, I still have to find the
userid. I probably don't know the naming convention, or if it's like it
is at my site, don't know the middle initial. I want to do a grep on
that system. I will usually look through old news to find a name from
that site and perhaps send an inqiry to that person. Obviously this is
not the best tack, so a contact name is better. Usenet forms are nice but
they get out of date and expire. Most sites have very few around, especially
the newer ones. Again, this is something to do with the uucp network
(and it's a good idea for the arpanet too!)
Some sites don't want to give away ids - that's fine, they don't have to
with this method. The name news, although a fine name, I guess, does not
indicate we are talking uucp net, not usenet here. I don't want to debate
the name much more. Since most people needed SU powers just to install
themselves into the net with their L.sys, SU powers should be availible
to set up this alias or account. (At least I think so Mark)
This is a place for the 'You have a poll' message!
Lets get this decided within the week if we can, or if we must, continue
the discussion through private mail. If net.general is not the place for
this, then perhaps a group on the uucp net as opposed to the usenet is
an idea?
Sorry for the flame, O ye of slow data rates.
Brad Templeton
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