18 Jul
2016
18 Jul
'16
8:44 p.m.
It does seem counter-intuitive that email addresses go right-to-left
like postal addresses rather than left-to-right like phone numbers. But
these days with auto-complete, I can type the first couple of characters
of an email address and the correct one pops up. That would never work
with com.whatever
When they were both in use at the same time, email routers had to deal
with ambiguity. Greg Chesson gave his email address as
research!greg@Berkeley and that only worked from the ARPANET and systems
running pathalias.
Mary Ann
On 07/18/2016 07:35 AM, Norman Wilson wrote:
Just to be clear: I don't pine at all for UUCP.
I do still think it's a mistake that e-mail addresses and
domain names run backwards from the way directories and
filenames run. That's what I miss about !norman vs
norman@.
But it's all a Beta-vs-VHS matter these days, like a lot
of unfortunate design decisions that have become standard
over the years.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON