From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: steve@quintile.net (Steve Simon) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:07:22 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Of login names In-Reply-To: <1468852530.22085.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> References: <1468852530.22085.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: <2F25D8BE-6BA8-440A-B91C-5C2A4438D84C@quintile.net> what fun we had in the early 1980s when the uk universities ran coloured book networking, that used arpanet style names but in the reverse order. I was ssimon at uk.ac.leeds-poly.ee.pe. formulating valid routed paths with % could be taxing... -Steve > On 18 Jul 2016, at 15:35, 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 at . > > 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. Like git winning out over hg, which is > sort of like the VAX/VMS command language winning out over > the Bourne shell. (To toss another pebble into the pond > to see what the ripples look like, rather in the manner > of Rob and Dave.) > > Norman Wilson > Toronto ON