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Re:[email protected] by JoshTriplett on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:23PM (#24609415)
> 2. also I think ! was used rather than . for some networks at some times. Certainly I’ve heard this anecdote from some early users of the internet (or maybe other computer networks)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path

! was used for manual routing from the source to the destination, when messages were copied from server to server via UUCP. People would write paths like ...!ucbvax!deptserver!myname , which means "you probably know how to get messages to ucbvax; from there, here's how to reach me".

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Re:[email protected] by ayewo on Monday September 28, 2020 @05:06AM (#24614575)
And here's an example of an old business card using that format for an email address:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#/media/File:UUCP_Email_Ad...

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Re:[email protected] by elygre on Sunday September 27, 2020 @05:59PM (#24610468)
...!mcsun!nuug!fics!el here :-). Of course, those were actual routes, rather than just reverse hierarchies.
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