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Article #709Re: use of % (was: Making smail2.5 understand <user>%<site>@<site>)
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1989 16:32
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1989 16:32
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Intel forges to the lead in incompatibilities again.
Intel's OpenNET software uses % to indicate machine names. So far, so good.
Unfortunately it gives it ! syntax. If I send mail to someone outside my
subnet they will see:
ficc%peter
If they're on uucp, they will see:
ficc%peter, remote from ficc
Their mail user agent will generate this reply:
ficc!peter!ficc
What fun, eh?
--
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-'
'U`
Quote: Structured Programming is a discipline -- not a straitjacket.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: use of % (was: Making smail2.5 understand <user>%<site>@<site>) Summary: % must die! Keywords: patches, smail2.5, %@ Message-ID: <6540@ficc.uu.net> Date: 15 Oct 89 16:32:20 GMT References: <1989Oct5.053531.24832@egsner.cirr.com> <9672@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <586@trwrc.RC.TRW.COM> <Oct.9.13.58.43.1989.23064@NET.BIO.NET> <126099@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1175@unify.UUCP> <126303@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 22