[Dshield] P.S. Re: Your father's internet

[George Capehart]

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

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> When *real* *live* e-mail addresses had multiple % and ! hacks and looked like:
> node1!node2!user%[119.38.12.1]@othergate.arpa you *had* to know how the stuff
> worked if you ever expected to get a reply (hint - what do you tell that
> user *your* e-mail address is. You get to work out what *your* address looks
> like from *his* end).

Oh yeah, and email was sent over dial-up uucp . . . How many mail/sys
admins these days have had to set up connections to multiple flavors of
uucp?  :>