Cookbook by Anarchists Cookbook IV 4.14

Author:Anarchists Cookbook IV 4.14 [4.14, Anarchists Cookbook IV]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2012-08-07T00:01:08+00:00

INTRODUCTION

DECWRL is a mail gateway computer operated by Digital's Western Research

Laboratory in Palo Alto, California. Its purpose is to support the interchange

of electronic mail between Digital and the "outside world."

DECWRL is connected to Digital's Easynet, and also to a number of different

outside electronic mail networks. Digital users can send outside mail by

sending to DECWRL::"outside-address", and digital users can also receive mail

by having your correspondents route it through DECWRL. The details of incoming

mail are more complex, and are discussed below.

It is vitally important that Digital employees be good citizens of the networks

to which we are connected. They depend on the integrity of our user community

to ensure that tighter controls over the use of the gateway are not required.

The most important rule is "no chain letters," but there are other rules

depending on whether the connected network that you are using is commercial or

non-commercial.

The current traffic volume (September 1989) is about 10,000 mail messages per

day and about 3,000 USENET messages per day. Gatewayed mail traffic has

doubled every year since 1983. DECWRL is currently a Vax 8530 computer with 48

megabytes of main memory, 2500 megabytes of disk space, 8 9600-baud (Telebit)

modem ports, and various network connections. They will shortly be upgrading

to a Vax 8650 system. They run Ultrix 3.0 as the base operating system.

ADMINISTRATION

The gateway has engineering staff, but no administrative or clerical staff.

They work hard to keep it running, but they do not have the resources to answer

telephone queries or provide tutorials in its use.

They post periodic status reports to the USENET newsgroup dec.general. Various

helpful people usually copy these reports to the VAXNOTES "gateways" conference

within a day or two.

HOW TO SEND MAIL

DECWRL is connected to quite a number of different mail networks. If you were

logged on directly to it, you could type addresses directly, e.g.

To: strange!foreign!address.

But since you are not logged on directly to the gateway, you must send mail so

that when it arrives at the gateway, it will be sent as if that address had

been typed locally.

* Sending from VMS

If you are a VMS user, you should use NMAIL, because VMS mail does not know how

to requeue and retry mail when the network is congested or disconnected. From

VMS, address your mail like this:

To: nm%DECWRL::"strange!foreign!address"

The quote characters (") are important, to make sure that VMS doesn't try to

interpret strange!foreign!address itself. If you are typing such an address

inside a mail program, it will work as advertised. If you are using DCL and

typing directly to the command line, you should beware that DCL likes to remove

quotes, so you will have to enclose the entire address in quotes, and then put

two quotes in every place that one quote should appear in the address:

$ mail test.msg "nm%DECWRL::""foreign!addr""" /subj="hello"

Note the three quotes in a row after foreign!addr. The first two of them are

doubled to produce a single quote in the address, and the third ends the

address itself (balancing the quote in front of the nm%).

Here are some typical outgoing mail addresses as used from a VMS system:

To: nm%DECWRL::"lll-winkin!netsys!phrack"

To: nm%DECWRL::"[email protected]"

To: nm%DECWRL::"[email protected]"

To: nm%DECWRL::"[email protected]"

To: nm%DECWRL::"[email protected]"

* Sending from Ultrix

If your Ultrix system

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