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>> The reason the mail looks funny is that it predates the Internet; some of what you see is Arpanet mail, and some (like the first one) is internal ITS mail.
by chimpanzee 2y ago
>> The reason the mail looks funny is that it predates the Internet;
some of what you see is Arpanet mail, and some (like the first one) is
internal ITS mail.
Two more curiosities:
- The sender’s address uses two at-signs, like NAME@@DOMAIN.
- There are typos where “at” is misspelled “ay”. Glad we don’t have to deal with that.