SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (09/06/89)
On Tue, 5 Sep 89 11:57:18 EDT you said: >However, pro-oz.cts.com is not an Internet host. It merely has a >registered domain-style address. It is not on the internet. The >significance of the name "pro-oz.com" is that there is an Internet host >(in this case, nosc.com) to which the e-mail actually goes. The mail >gets to pro-oz by means outside the TCP/IP world. In fact, it could >even be a UUCP connection. 'nosc' = Naval Oceanographic Survey Center (that's REALLY close at least), it's as MIL as BRL :-) (I know the Army doesn't like the idea that the Navy exists, but...). 'cts.com' = Crash Time Sharing. Bill Blue (Founder of United Software and author of ASCII Express, the first really decent Apple communications and terminal emulation software -- before the IBM-PC even existed, I think) has a sense of humor and named his (yes, it's UUCP <yuchh>) host 'crash' -- which may be what it mostly did in its early days :-) Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity! -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)