Thomas Thurman on Thu, 5 Dec 2002 21:52:15 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] 'inter-user mail'


On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Paul wrote:
> We did figure out that the digits were phone numbers, but we thought the 
> "P" stood for pager. 

Maybe it does. I was guessing that bit.

> Still, that's looney tunes!  How much information 
> needs to be encoded in an e-mail address?!  It's no longer 
> human-friendly. It's like those crazy Comcast host names.

But it's not encoded in the email address! Those are phone numbers. The
guy's email address is "jonelson@state.pa.us".

I agree about the hostnames, though.

T

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