Pretty sure I've shared this before ...

Post #402,109 by drook 5/28/15 8:04:44 PM Reply	Pretty sure I've shared this before ... When I was in the Marines we used a Banyan Vines network. My email was drewkime@RSCleveland@4MCD@MCRC You could wildcard any level, so for instance @RSCleveland@4MCD@MCRC would go to my entire office. @@4MCD@MCRC would go to the entire District, etc. One year for the Marine Corps Birthday some motivated young PFC decided to send birthday greetings to @@@* Banyan Vines at the time had vacation messages, but didn't yet prevent responding to the same address over and over, and didn't recognize when the thing it was responding to was itself a vacation message. The next day, after they had shut down the entire Marine Corps network and restarted it several times, he didn't have email access any more. -- Drew
Post #402,111 by malraux 5/28/15 8:11:03 PM Reply	Oh that's excellent. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #402,119 by static 5/28/15 10:33:54 PM Reply	Heh. I remember that feature. I also remember when we disabled wildcard sending as soon as it was available! I loved how scalable Vines was. Pity they got swamped by Microsoft networking, although a lot of that was their own fault, too. Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
Post #402,125 by mmoffitt 5/29/15 8:43:04 AM Reply	Banyan Vines! Man, it was a VERY long time ago when I used that.
Post #402,193 by static 5/30/15 8:11:55 AM Reply	Back in the day... We had a 60 server VINES network run by two administrators, plus the PC support team (about 8 people) who did general PC support as well as network support. We could have doubled our server count without needing any more administrators. At one point we got bought by another company who used MS LAN Manager and MS Mail. They wanted to migrate us to their MS Mail system and could not get their head around the fact we didn't have or need dedicated email administrators. The senior network admin wanted to take a month off work just to watch them try to migrate us. :-) Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
Post #402,212 by pwhysall 5/31/15 10:37:44 AM Reply	Yep Drook is really, really old.

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