From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:arnold Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Signing articles Article-I.D.: ucbarpa.1849 Posted: Mon Aug 9 21:09:35 1982 Received: Tue Aug 10 04:50:23 1982 This is really just a minor tidbit of curiosity, but why do people give their uucp addresses as "...wonderland!alice"? I mean, why have the "..."? Novices will just follow it literally and it will never work, and knowledgeable people will find the path to wonderland. The "..." is implicit in uucp addresses, and is therefore redundant. I really don't care about all the money companies spend sending extraneous "..."s (since they've already probably spent as muchs sending REAL tripe (like this letter)), but I'm just curious as to what motivates this. Ken ucbvax!arnold, arnold@BERKELEY