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[Jerry Feldman]

On 04/07/2010 10:51 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
>> EasyNET was around in the glorious '80s, too!
>>     
> uucp(1) - Unix to Unix Copy
>
> decvax!maddog - who needs any stinking domain names?
>
> And surely you *name* your computer systems!
>
> "shaman", "guru", "shamet", "wicca" - my systems all have *names*
>
> Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!  (sneezy, dopey, doc, bashful, grumpy,
> sleepy, happy)....and I did not even have to look up the names...not
> because of the movie, but because of the eight systems in engineering.
>
> Now I go back to sleep.
>
> md
>
> P.S. Do not forget Fidonet!  Urf!
>
>   
I've been on them all. Trying to send email from Lowell, Ma to a
customer in Ca was interesting using bangpath addressing. We had dialup
connections to a number of hosts including decvax. So when sending email
we had to not only specify the destination, but every node on the path.
The customer used another famous host, ucbvax. So, we had to specify
something like decvax!hostinchicago!ucbvax!customerhost!name

One host we tried to avoid was Harvard as they would try to optimize the
list, and more often than not failed. Most of the communication was
still dialup, but ARPANET was starting to become available.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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