[HPFGU-OTChatter] Serious!Question

[Jen Faulkner]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Heidi Tandy wrote:

> It's a practise the fandom adopted from anime. The exclamation point
> means "one who is", pretty much, and if you pronounce it, it's
> pronounced "bang".

I don't know for certain, but I'd be very surprised if this practice had
been adopted from anime -- the bang (exclamation point) was used in UUCP
email adresses, where the bangs separated parts of the path:
machine1!machine2!machine3...  That's predating any use in anime fandom,
I'd think.

I have no idea at what point it was first used as a naming convention in
particular on the main list, but I've seen it since 1995 or so in fandom
in general.

--jen :)

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