[thechat] interesting: google groups archive timeline

[John Handelaar]

On Wednesday 12 December 2001 2:20 pm, you wrote:
> At 2:11 PM +0000 12/12/01, Garrett Coakley wrote:
> >And whats up with my odd backward email address's?
> >
> >coakley at uk.ac.cov.cch and coakley at uk.ac.cov.cck[1]
> >
> >G.
> >
> >[1] I'll buy a pint for the person who knows what thats all about *:)
>
> IIRC, the old bitnet addresses worked like that. You'd focus on the
> TLD, then the subs working down to the most specific.

But in this case it was JANet, all of whose email addys were
in backwards (think it was X25-related) notation until - IIRC -
1995.

jh

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