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Article #3728Re: Is '@' ever needed?
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 14:03
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 14:03
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In article <797@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes: >It seems I can (so far) get away with saying to use '%' as the >internet list separator, and if you see '@', it is equivalent to '%'. Picking a random address from my logs, I see that a local user has corresponded with: STREK-L%PCCVM.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU I guess you are saying that you could address this mail as: STREK-L%PCCVM.BITNET%cmsa.Berkeley.EDU Try this address on a Sun, with the distributed SunOS configuration file (either sendmail.main.cf or sendmail.subsidiary.cf), and you will discover that it is rewritten as: STREK-L@PCCVM.BITNET%cmsa.Berkeley.EDU after which it bounces because 'PCCVM.BITNET%cmsa.Berkeley.EDU' is an unknown host. The last time I checked, there were at least one or two SunOS systems on the net. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Is '@' ever needed? Keywords: '%' Message-ID: <1991Jun18.140316.12927@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 18 Jun 91 14:03:16 GMT References: <797@minya.UUCP> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 31