From: Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:28:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120227152844.GS27577@ns1.bonedaddy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGo3WeppPPxcA7YDrDzDa+0qQOqT6kEJ9tK8FfDx=cNzAu3f4A@mail.gmail.com>
* Claudio Roberto Fran?a Pereira <spideybr@gmail.com> [120227 08:35]:
> I'm reading Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire, and at the end of
> the book there is an about the author section that mentions two
> contact addresses: one is an email, the other is
> microsoft!storm!stevem. The book is from 1993, so that should be an
> old address, for an old protocol. So what? That's not enough for my
> curiosity. Anyone does know where this came from?
>
> --
> Claudio Roberto França Pereira
>
As others have said it's a "bang path" for UUCP routing.
It was used for mail routing even when not strictly using UUCP as well.
This was before such thing as DNS and you got to pass around host tables
(/etc/hosts) which contained all known hosts and their IP addresses.
Todd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-27 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-27 14:04 [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2012-02-27 14:27 ` Florian Philipp
2012-02-27 15:10 ` James Broadhead
2012-02-27 15:28 ` Todd Goodman [this message]
2012-02-27 17:20 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-27 17:07 ` Todd Goodman
2012-02-28 20:52 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2012-02-27 17:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
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