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<You would have to route messages manually. A UUCP email address might be "mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko", where mcvax was well-enough known that others knew
by DrScump 11y ago
<You would have to route messages manually. A UUCP email address might be "mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko", where mcvax was well-enough known that others knew how to send email there...>
Or, the convention for giving multiple "well-known host" options was "{preferred|alt1|alt2...}!mailhost!username"
In 1987ish, I was the first in my company to think to request my email address on my business cards: "{pyramid|decwrl|uunet}!infmx!aland"
- dalke 11y agoTrue. The full context of the 1-Apr-84 message I used for the above example ends: And now, let's open a flask of Vodka and have a drink on our entry on this network. So: NA ZDAROVJE! -- K. Chernenko, Moscow, USSR ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko