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Article #621Re: To parse the unparseable dream
From: David Herron -- One of the verte...
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1988 04:18
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1988 04:18
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In article <3566@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
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> What would you do if you saw the following on a To: line?
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>Roy Smith <philabs.philips.com.weiser.pa@xerox.com (Roy Smith)>
Actually this isn't too bad ... The embedded comment is a little
strange but is legal.
Of course, we all know that "philabs.philips.com.weiser.pa" is
really a couple of things concatenated together. The tail part
of that is (as I recall) Mark Weiser's name & "domain" within Xerox.
The rest is domain name for part of philips.com ... BUT, syntactically
this address is perfectly correct. It is only wrong in its SEMANTICS.
What our system here would do? Well, I'm assuming for the moment
that MMDF's address parser is correct enough to handle that right.
I believe that it is ... So anyway, we'd pass it over to xerox.com
and it's their problem to figure out who to give it to...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: To parse the unparseable dream Message-ID: <10437@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 26 Oct 88 04:18:06 GMT References: <3566@phri.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 26