Bitnet Addresses

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From: Greg Skinner
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1983 02:01

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Does anyone know why Bitnet addresses have such a strange syntax?  I'd really
like to know what the "g" stands for.

example: g.bostonu=csc126

--greg

decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!gds, gds%mit-eddie@{mit-mc,mit-ml}

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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!gds
From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Bitnet Addresses
Message-ID: <845@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Oct-83 22:01:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.845
Posted: Sun Oct 23 22:01:14 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Oct-83 02:05:58 EDT
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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