mail standard

[Barry Margolin]

	Has there every been a standard for contacting administrators
	on unknown machines? 
	Should there be one?

On the Defense Data Network (DDN, nee Arpanet) there are a couple of
standards.  POSTMASTER is an address which gets you people in charge of
mail.  LIAISON gets you the site DDN liaison (the Usenet analog would be
the contact person listed in a newsite announcement).  Many Unix(tm)
sites use the convention that mail to "root" gets read by appropriate
system administrators (I recently used this to find out the userid of
someon who I only knew by name).
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			Barry Margolin
			ARPA: barmar at MIT-Multics
			UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar