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Request for network mailbox addresses

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Network Working Group                                           J. White
Request for Comments: 510                                        SRI-ARC
NIC: 16400                                                   30 May 1973


                 Request for Network Mailbox Addresses

   To Liaisons:

   Within the next few weeks, the NIC will begin providing Network
   Journal delivery to those users in the Net who desire it.

      Submission of Journal articles will also be possible through FTP.

   Each user will then have his choice of three Journal delivery modes:
   ONLINE delivery to the AUTHOR branch of his initial file at the NIC,
   HARDCOPY delivery to his place of business via the Postal Service,
   and NETWORK delivery to his on-line mailbox at his home host.  Each
   user may select any or all forms of delivery.

   Initially, Network Journal delivery will consist of the following:

      Each piece of mail addressed to the user will be delivered to a
      host and mailbox of his choosing, using the mail command(s)
      defined by the File Transfer Protocol.  The mail will contain in
      its text, a header containing the author's NIC Ident, the date of
      submission, a title, etc., and either the text of the message or,
      if it's long, a pointer to it (according to the 'Submit Message'
      and 'Submit File' distinction in NLS Journal submission).  More
      than one piece of Journal mail may, in general, be delivered as a
      single piece of FTP mail.

      The user's delivery host and mailbox will be stored in the NIC's
      Ident file, and the user can change or view them (along with his
      delivery mode(s)) from the Identification System in NLS.

      The pointer sent to the user for bulk mail will be a pathname by
      which an FTP user process, acting on the user's behalf, can
      retrieve the text of the mail from SRI-ARC.  The pathname will
      contain the necessary parameters to cause SRI-ARC's FTP server
      process to convert the file from NLS (tree-structured) to
      sequential form before transmission.

   The purpose of this memo is not to document the service (we'll do
   that as soon as it's available), but to solicit help from Liaisons,
   each of whom is asked to provide the NIC with the following
   information for EACH user affiliated with his host organization who
   desires Network Journal delivery:



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