Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

[Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net>]

* Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> [120227 11:49]:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Todd Goodman <tsg@bonedaddy.net> wrote:
> > * 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.
> 
> Predates me somewhat, but I believe UUCP operated over DUN/direct
> serial without the IP layer, as well.

Yep.

Todd