Re: TECH: the *very* old archives
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 14, 2005, 15:14 |
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Carsten Becker wrote at 2005-08-14 16:51:06 (+0200)
> Hey!
>
> Like many others of you certainly already have, I am
> downloading the *very* old archives at the moment (1991-97)
> and adjust them so that I can import them into OE6. Besides
> that some messages are just weird because they have
> corrupted "Date:" or "From:" tags (sometimes in the same
> line as some other tag, which causes problems), what are
> those addresses with bangs (!) and percents (%)? For
> example, John Cowan's mails all include a line
> "lock60!snark!cowan@gvls1.VFL.Paramax.COM
> <mailto:lock60%21snark%21cowan@...>".
I believe that's what you call a "bang path", a UUCP mail address.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP