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by gumby 902 days ago
I was gumby@MIT-AI.ARPA. By then mail used SMTP but the arpanet had not yet transitioned to IP/TCP.

Those .ARPA names were part of a lengthy transition to the DNS; before this I was just gumby@mit-ai or just gumby@ai

The ARPA. TLD isn’t used for hosts any more but has been repurposed mainly for network database lookups. Yes, the `.` after the TLD is there for a reason.

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Gumby! Wow. What a blast from the past.

So many hours tweaking Sendmail m4 logics for ARPA to DNS and back.