domainist

jargon /doh-mayn'ist/ 1. Said of a domain address (as

opposed to a bang path) because the part to the right of the

"@" specifies a nested series of "domains"; for example,

[email protected] specifies the machine called snark in

the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain

called com. See also big-endian.

2. Said of a site, mailer or routing program which knows how

to handle domainist addresses.

3. Said of a person (especially a site admin) who prefers

domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer, or

proselytises for domainist addressing and disdains bangpaths. This term is now (1993) semi-obsolete, as most sites

have converted.

[Jargon File]

(1995-04-21)