Subject: Re: royal botanic garden edinburgh

From: [email-masked] (Duncan Mackinder)
Date: 30 Jun 1995 10:04:23 GMT

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh email address is:
     rbge.org.uk

-- 
Duncan Mackinder
CA-INGRES UK Technical Support.

The ideas may be mine, I make no claim that Computer Associates agrees with
them.

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From: [email-masked] (Una Smith)
Date: 30 Jun 1995 16:05:23 GMT

>Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh email address is:

No, rbge.org.uk is the name of either a single computer at RBGE,
or a domain name and alias.  It is *not* a valid e-mail address.
In reply to the original question, which I forwarded to him, the
postmaster at RBGE sent me this to post here:

	The nearest thing we have to a general email address is 

		    [email-masked]

	We do not have an address that is set up to forward
	messages to everyone, but the above address will reach
	someone who deals with general herbarium queries and
	who will pass the incoming messages onto the relevant
	persons.

I visited RBGE in April, on a research trip, and I found that a
fairly substantial fraction of the staff there read e-mail, and
that it was possible to arrange for workspace in the herbarium
and to request information from their collections databases and
other materials, entirely via e-mail to the appropriate offices.

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From: [email-masked] (H.J. Sluiman)
Date: 30 Jun 1995 17:01:00 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Una Smith) writes:
|> [email-masked] (Duncan Mackinder) wrote:
|> 
|> >Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh email address is:
|> >     rbge.org.uk
|> 
|> No, rbge.org.uk is the name of either a single computer at RBGE,
|> or a domain name and alias.  It is *not* a valid e-mail address.
|> In reply to the original question, which I forwarded to him, the
|> postmaster at RBGE sent me this to post here:
|> 
|> 	The nearest thing we have to a general email address is 
|> 
|> 		    [email-masked]
|> 
|> 	We do not have an address that is set up to forward
|> 	messages to everyone, but the above address will reach
|> 	someone who deals with general herbarium queries and
|> 	who will pass the incoming messages onto the relevant
|> 	persons.
|> 
|> I visited RBGE in April, on a research trip, and I found that a
|> fairly substantial fraction of the staff there read e-mail, and
|> that it was possible to arrange for workspace in the herbarium
|> and to request information from their collections databases and
|> other materials, entirely via e-mail to the appropriate offices.
|> 
|> 
If you know the first initial and surname of a person at RBGE any email will be
delivered (not necessarily read.....) if you use the following format:
[email-masked]
Every member of the scientific staff has an email account.
Hans Sluiman ([email-masked])