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RE: RFC for well-known admin email addresses?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John-David Childs)
Thu Jun 5 16:51:30 1997

Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 14:53:34 -0600 (MDT)
From: John-David Childs <jdc@denver.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <514F7F8FE297CF119492524153480006221168@pbm01.pacblue.com>

On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Eric Lucas wrote:

> Try, http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu/rfc.html
> 
> 
> 
> > >The only index I know if is http://ds.internic.net/ds/rfc-index.html
> > >If you know of another, maybe one that is searchable, I'd like to 
> > >hear about it.  Sifting through over 2000 RFCs for a keyphrase like
> > >"well-known email addresses" without a search tool takes more than 
> > >a few seconds.

Not that it matters much, but your choice of search words can make a huge 
difference.  I used

	abuse postmaster noc hostmaster

to query the same WAIS index at InterNIC that others couldn't find 
information about "well-known email addresses".
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