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Grex Info Item 139: AOL address
Entered by wh on Sun Apr 17 02:48:54 UTC 1994:

How do I address email to a friend on AOL? I tried
AOL.xxxxxxnnnn where x was the name and nnnn were digits
but it came back rejected. Thanks.

13 responses total.

#1 of 13 by scg on Sun Apr 17 03:01:32 1994:

login@aol.com

#2 of 13 by robh on Sun Apr 17 03:55:29 1994:

What he said.

#3 of 13 by gerund on Sun Apr 17 06:09:58 1994:

Most definitely login@aol.com I do it all the time with two people there.

#4 of 13 by vidar on Sun Apr 17 13:14:32 1994:

Ditto, Ditto, Ditto.

#5 of 13 by kaplan on Mon Apr 18 17:09:58 1994:

I heard AOL was going to give its members more access to the internet.
Does anyone know about this?  Can the talk (or ytalk or ntalk or something)
work between grex and aol?  Can aol people telnet to grex?  What other
machine names are on the aol.net and aol.com domains these days?

#6 of 13 by gerund on Tue Apr 19 03:35:01 1994:

In relation to a 'forum' that was being planned for a mailing-list I
subscribe to it was revealed by people on AOL that currently all they have
access to is E-Mail.

#7 of 13 by wh on Tue Apr 19 05:46:43 1994:

Re 1,2,3, and 4. Thanks a bunch. It worked.

#8 of 13 by popcorn on Fri Jul 8 00:51:11 1994:

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#9 of 13 by mju on Fri Jul 8 04:35:06 1994:

Just because a machine name is valid for e-mail doesn't mean it's
valid for finger requests.  In this case, "aol.com" is an MX record
for mailgate.prod.aol.net, which appears to be an HP-UX machine
running very stripped-down Internet services (i.e., no telnet service,
no finger service, not even daytime service).  So, I don't think you
can finger people at AOL.

#10 of 13 by popcorn on Fri Jul 8 11:34:22 1994:

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#11 of 13 by rcurl on Fri Jul 8 15:36:46 1994:

While roaming round with Netfind, I've found that most hosts reject
finger. I suppose that is because of clients like netfind, which
do wholesale fingering.

#12 of 13 by curby on Sun Jul 17 18:44:01 1994:

Lets see if my explanation works.

The AOL system is running a a couple of machines.  When an AOL customer
mails something to the internet, he is really sendint it to the mail
gateway machine that Marc told us about.  All that mail machine knows how
to do is use mail.  The same goes for the reverse direction.  When to try
to get to the aol.com host, you get directed to the mail gateway machine. 
Everything works fine if you are seding mail, but if you try to telnet
to the machine via any other port (ask it to do anything but mail) it
doesn't know what to do.

The rest of Marcs response was to explain what type of machine this is.

If you want more information about a user on aol, I a would suggest writing
to either hostmaster@aol.com or postmaster@aol.com.  They will be able to
give you more information on how to get information about the users of
there system.

#13 of 13 by pidou01 on Wed Jun 13 13:13:22 2001:

I use grex and I am on AOL

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