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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 htt
by 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.