[geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed

[Dave Fischer]

very at zonky.org writes:

>'%' is the conventional smtp mechanism to specify a route through an
>smtp destination. However many mail gateways used alternative forms, so
>both mechanisms were perfectly possible. It was also possible to hack
>support for a fake .uucp domain and manually route that through a
>uucp-connected machine ... I did that myself in about 1994 but it was
>rarely used and was eventually dropped.

MX records leading to a few hops of uucp definately worked. I had
gilly.uucp, but I don't remember that details of how well that
worked, as opposed to dave%gilly at someone-upstream.com...

>-- 
>Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
> "Why are we hiding from the police, daddy?"
> "Because we use vi, son, and they use emacs."
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Ah, speaking of the early 90s uucpnet days... the two quotes I'm
famous for from that period are that vi/emacs quote in your sig,
and the September 1993 thing.

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