meaning of bang on

1. bang on Or "pound on". To stress-test a piece of hardware or software: "I banged on the new version of the simulator all day yesterday and it didnt crash once. I guess it is ready for release. " [Jargon File] bang path 1. An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address naming a sequence of hosts through which a message must pass to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee a "source route". So called because each hop is signified by a bang sign exclamation mark. Thus, for example, the path . . . !bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to computer bigsite presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody and from there through the computer foovax to the account of user me on barbox. Before autorouting mailers became commonplace, people often published compound bang addresses using the convention

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