[TUHS] Of login names
Ronald Natalie
ron at ronnatalie.com
Tue Jul 19 00:55:22 AEST 2016
One of my great stories from the early internet days was I received an email from another site that had a from line of:
From: Hi There! Will Martin of AMSAA Here <will at amsaa.mil>
I responded by setting mine to:
From: Hi There! Ron Natalie of BRL Here <ron at brl.mil>
Of course, I promptly forgot about it. Amusingly it got written up in a HUMAN-NETS discussion of signature lines but it also croaked a few people who had imperfect RFC822 vs. UUCP handlers because of the !.
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