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From: Todd Goodman <tsg@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:44:02
Message-Id: 20120227170751.GB27577@ns1.bonedaddy.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation by Michael Mol
1 * Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> [120227 11:49]:
2 > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Todd Goodman <tsg@×××××××××.net> wrote:
3 > > * Claudio Roberto Fran?a Pereira <spideybr@×××××.com> [120227 08:35]:
4 > >> I'm reading Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire, and at the end of
5 > >> the book there is an about the author section that mentions two
6 > >> contact addresses: one is an email, the other is
7 > >> microsoft!storm!stevem. The book is from 1993, so that should be an
8 > >> old address, for an old protocol. So what? That's not enough for my
9 > >> curiosity. Anyone does know where this came from?
10 > >>
11 > >> --
12 > >> Claudio Roberto França Pereira
13 > >>
14 > >
15 > > As others have said it's a "bang path" for UUCP routing.
16 > >
17 > > It was used for mail routing even when not strictly using UUCP as well.
18 > >
19 > > This was before such thing as DNS and you got to pass around host tables
20 > > (/etc/hosts) which contained all known hosts and their IP addresses.
21 >
22 > Predates me somewhat, but I believe UUCP operated over DUN/direct
23 > serial without the IP layer, as well.
24
25 Yep.
26
27 Todd

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