From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S24Gv-0001Br-Hw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:22:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A874CE0566; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0EBE045E for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:20:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so272147bkw.40 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:20:46 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of mikemol@gmail.com designates 10.204.10.80 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.204.10.80; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of mikemol@gmail.com designates 10.204.10.80 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=mikemol@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=mikemol@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.204.10.80]) by 10.204.10.80 with SMTP id o16mr7231484bko.50.1330363246664 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:20:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UhSWN2ad93je9XZHin2hyD72V9ZpICIXqnElZXA5GHU=; b=n8kWVZ16nvFyzj8tVNmw4pN+FC2gLyRPJCWfGkZ0r8qQVklUSIZ1KBk3l1jYCMkLL4 3/50iuG+4aamxBISNCq4WD9FF28rjxfZ60AIZQXV8O1LTXgb5H4N4QaNjOgJqxRNnJtm hrBpPrVqt+0iZCt1usxBW2veFIIAH0+SZiXco= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.10.80 with SMTP id o16mr5806325bko.50.1330363246596; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:20:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.14.19 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:20:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120227152844.GS27577@ns1.bonedaddy.net> References: <20120227152844.GS27577@ns1.bonedaddy.net> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:20:46 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 3fa6f6dc-d7eb-4df2-9144-b8dcf863539c X-Archives-Hash: b98a875815086ebbbbd2de711f81e536 On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Todd Goodman wrote: > * Claudio Roberto Fran?a Pereira [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 Fran=C3=A7a 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. --=20 :wq