31 Aug
2016
31 Aug
'16
12:37 p.m.
Loewen:
Here's my entry from the NIXPUB list in 1992: 04/92 814-353-0566 cpumagic Bellefonte PA 12/24/96/14 24
What a small world: friends still live in Bellefonte. The closest I have to that was my photo & entry in "Face Saver" at the 1989 Usenix conference. http://www.metron.com/FaceSaver/ From: Neil Cherry
If you were on bitnet you were probably using all sorts of symbols. I recall mixing !, %, @, {}. Lots of fun with routing email.
I donated my O'Reilly Nutshell book of manual e-mail routing to the VCF library. It documented all known email gateways and things like the "at-hack". The title looked like a cartoon character cursing: @!#%*-something.