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From:	Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-user] Re: [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation
Date:	Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:32:30
Message-Id:	`jigejb$3jv$1@dough.gmane.org`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation by Michael Mol

1	On 2012-02-27, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
2	>
3	>> As others have said it's a "bang path" for UUCP routing.
4	>>
5	>> It was used for mail routing even when not strictly using UUCP as
6	>> well.
7
8	Interesting. That's something I wasn't aware of.
9
10	>> This was before such thing as DNS and you got to pass around host tables
11	>> (/etc/hosts) which contained all known hosts and their IP addresses.
12	>
13	> Predates me somewhat, but I believe UUCP operated over DUN/direct
14	> serial without the IP layer, as well.
15
16	Yes, UUCP worked over both TCP and dial-up.
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