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> > There is no such thing as a bang address.
> 
> Gee, what's that thing on the command line after "mail"?
> 
> % mail snarf\!mumble\!scream\!person

That thing is a route, not an address.  This route to "person" would work for
you only if your host talks to snarf.  A proper address to this person would
be something like person@scream.technisound.com.  A user can send mail to an
address like that and not have to worry about how the mail will get there.
The routing is left up to the mail transport mechanism, whatever it may be.

> What should appear on the To: line of this letter?

If the UUCP host scream has a domain name (e.g. scream.techisound.com) then
that is what should be on the To: line (person@scream.techisound.com).  If
scream doesn't have a domain name, person@scream.uucp is best, since on smart
UUCP hosts replying to this will allow an appropriate path to be generated.
Not-so-smart UUCP hosts leave this up to the user and force them to put routes
into the mail headers... but there is no longer any need for this!  THere is
FREE software available to do the routing more or less invisibly.

kyle jones   <kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu>   old dominion university, norfolk, va