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Slightly off-topic but I am curious: what are the things at the bottom? Are they precursors to email or something?

by pki 11y ago

rbanffy 11y ago
Exactly. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node189.html http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node189.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bang-path.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bang-path.html
cremno 11y ago
Somewhat. Those are/were actual email addresses. It's just another kind of email (UUCP/Usenet instead of SMTP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing
rwh86 11y ago
By "things" I assume you mean this stuff: > ARPA: miw%uk.ac.man.cs.ux@cs.ucl.ac.uk > USENET: mcvax!ukc!man.cs.ux!miw > JANET: miw@uk.ac.man.cs.ux miw is clearly Mario Wolczko's username. Those will be his email address in different formats. The first would route email to him at miw@uk.ac.man.cs.ux using cs.ucl.ac.uk first as a gateway. The second address format is what's called a bang path, for UUCP email. The final one is a modern IETF standard email address. JANET is a network provider for UK academic institutions, similar to an ISP but structured differently. You might find these references interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x-087-2-mail.address.html http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x-087-2-mail.address.... http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ew_addr.htm http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ew_addr.htm
- pm215 11y ago
  I think that last one isn't a modern standard email address -- the domain part is reversed. It's a JANET NRS path (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS). The modern equivalent would be miw@ux.cs.man.ac.uk. The first email address (the ARPA one) is presumably using a machine in UCL as the gateway between internet routing and JANET routing, since the part before the % is the JANET NRS component ordering. The obvious conclusion would be that the mail server he was using didn't have an ARPAnet connection at all.

Slightly off-topic but I am curious: what are the things at the bottom? Are they precursors to email or something?

by pki 11y ago

Slightly off-topic but I am curious: what are the things at the bottom? Are they precursors to email or something?

Exactly. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node189.html http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node189.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bang-path.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bang-path.html

cremno 11y ago

Somewhat. Those are/were actual email addresses. It's just another kind of email (UUCP/Usenet instead of SMTP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing

rwh86 11y ago

By "things" I assume you mean this stuff: > ARPA: miw%uk.ac.man.cs.ux@cs.ucl.ac.uk > USENET: mcvax!ukc!man.cs.ux!miw > JANET: miw@uk.ac.man.cs.ux miw is clearly Mario Wolczko's username. Those will be his email address in different formats. The first would route email to him at miw@uk.ac.man.cs.ux using cs.ucl.ac.uk first as a gateway. The second address format is what's called a bang path, for UUCP email. The final one is a modern IETF standard email address. JANET is a network provider for UK academic institutions, similar to an ISP but structured differently. You might find these references interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x-087-2-mail.address.html http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x-087-2-mail.address.... http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ew_addr.htm http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ew_addr.htm

pm215 11y ago
I think that last one isn't a modern standard email address -- the domain part is reversed. It's a JANET NRS path (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS). The modern equivalent would be miw@ux.cs.man.ac.uk. The first email address (the ARPA one) is presumably using a machine in UCL as the gateway between internet routing and JANET routing, since the part before the % is the JANET NRS component ordering. The obvious conclusion would be that the mail server he was using didn't have an ARPAnet connection at all.