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syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein) writes:
>jpolak@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
>>I have a correspondent whoes Email address is of the form
>
>>	John=Smith@....
>
>>that is, it has an "=" embedded in it. If I try to setup an alias
>>for this address elm is not able to parse it properly (it seems to
>>assume that the embedded "=" is a component of the aliasing syntax).
>
>>Is there any way around this problem, e.g., is there an escape character
>>I can use to force elm to treat the embedded "=" literally.
>
>In 2.4, the proper method is to quote the address, as in
>	"John=Smith"@site

Not to contradict the owner, I've tried this in the past, without success,
running [ELM 2.4 PL5].  What I have done, at the suggestion of the keeper
of ELM here at SCO Canada, was escape the '=', so the address is:

	John\=Smith@...

(going across that canyon to Banyan?)
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