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[ih] "email"-- an opportunity.



On 6/6/2013 10:18 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> On 6/6/2013 9:18 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:
>
>>> In the late 1980's I had a bang path address (I've forgotten the
>>> beginning
>>> of it, maybe)  ucbvax!well!car54 (seems like the "ucbvax" was wrapped
>>> with
>>> a well known site at my employer that I was not supposed to know
>>> about--"pttsomething" in curly braces?)
>>>
>>> But I don't remember what I called it.
>
> It occurs to me that I probably called it "my bang path".

Interesting to note that the Wiki page for "bang path" 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_path#Bang_path speaks only of "mail".

>


-- 
Requiescas in pace o email           Two identifying characteristics
                                         of System Administrators:
Ex turpi causa non oritur actio      Infallibility, and the ability to
                                         learn from their mistakes.
                                           (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)