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