Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 09:40:47 +0200
From: Michael Behrens 
Newsgroups: desy.computing
Subject: Uniq Email Names - Validity and Spelling

New users often try out their new or modified Uniq Email Name
immediately after account creation. Quite often this test fails. The
reason for this apparent failure is the way how these names become
available for use.
New and modified Uniq Email Names (like e.g. Michael.Behrens@desy.de)
become
usable only on the day following creation or modification. These names
are
kept in a data base, and each night the contents of this data base are
exported to the DESY mailer. Only after this export the names are known
and can be used.  

Another problem comes from the fact that the Uniq Email name is
sometimes not what one expects. Many people have well known first names,
e.g. Bill or Chris,
but mail to bill.lastname@desy.de bounces because the user is unknown.
This is usually due to the fact that this user registered under a
different
first name, e.g. William instead of Bill, Christopher instead of Chris.
The Uniq Email Name currently works only if it is an exact match.
You can use the page  http://www.desy.de/cgi-bin/pbook.pl to find out
the correct Email Name of a person.

Michael  Behrens
DESY - User Support