Re: Use of % in addresses?

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From: Eliot Lear
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 1989 10:07

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When you see user%subsite@host.subdomain.domain, you should treat
everything including before the @ as user data, and things will work.
Use of % in addresses (be they recipients or senders) is discouraged
in the Internet.  For more information, see RFC 1123 sections 5.2.6
and 5.2.16.
-- 
Eliot Lear
[lear@net.bio.net]

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From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear)
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Subject: Re: Use of % in addresses?
Message-ID: <Oct.8.03.07.45.1989.5066@NET.BIO.NET>
Date: 8 Oct 89 10:07:46 GMT
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