On 3/8/2024 9:07 AM, Julian Bradfield via mailop wrote:
Is there any reason not to use the old routing character '%' instead?
Well, that's certainly a bit of ancient history. Fwiw, here's some background on it:
I chose % for use in CSNet mostly because of its established postal use IRL to mean "in care of", as well as to use a character that was not yet a 'special' for any (or at least most) operating system command interfaces.
Note that @, for Arpanet mail, and !, for UUCP, were already taken. So the range of choices was limited in 1979...
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social
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