From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gdmr@inf.ed.ac.uk (George Ross) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:07:51 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Of login names In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:45:25 BST." <656090BB-BF5B-42D6-AF5F-8751A15B7D9A@tfeb.org> Message-ID: <201607261307.u6QD7ptv010134@farg.inf.ed.ac.uk> > I have a possibly-invented memory that the CS department at Edinburgh (and > probably others) ended up being called DCS because cs is a valid top-level > domain, and so the horrid sendmail magic which worked out whether addresses > needed to be turned around (and, I suppose, knew all the TLDs -- it > certainly had a huge table of things) would get confused by uk.ac.ed.cs and > send things to Czechoslovakia (as then was). No, that's a genuine memory, though I don't remember whether it was just a worry or whether things actually got lost. Electrical Engineering (aka "ee") was another similarly affected. I still have books on my shelf with a sticker in them with my coloured-book "cs" address listed. -- gdmr at uk.ac.ed.cs, then gdmr at uk.ac.ed.dcs then gdmr at dcs.ed.ac.uk (which still works), then eventually gdmr at inf.ed.ac.uk. George D M Ross MSc PhD CEng MBCS CITP, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9AB Mail: gdmr at inf.ed.ac.uk Voice: 0131 650 5147 Fax: 0131 650 6899 PGP: 1024D/AD758CC5 B91E D430 1E0D 5883 EF6A 426C B676 5C2B AD75 8CC5 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 237 bytes Desc: not available URL: