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Re: use of % (was: Making smail2.5 understand <user>%<site>@<site>)

#727
From: David Goodenough
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1989 21:18
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lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) sez:
>          DISCUSSION:
>               The intent is to discourage all source routing and to
>               abolish explicit source routing for mail delivery within
>               the Internet environment.  Source-routing is unnecessary;
		    ^^^^^^^^
>               the simple target address "user@domain" should always
>               suffice.

Since when did .UUCP become a domain recognised by the Internet folks??

Note the "Internet" address in the .sig file.
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	dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough		+---+
						IHS	| +-+-+
	....... !harvard!xait!lakart!dg			+-+-+ |
AKA:	dg%lakart.uucp@xait.xerox.com			  +---+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!ima!cfisun!lakart!dg
References: <Oct.17.16.13.16.1989.27379@NET.BIO.NET>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!ima!cfisun!lakart!dg
From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: use of % (was: Making smail2.5 understand <user>%<site>@<site>)
Message-ID: <726@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 21:18:39 GMT
References: <Oct.17.16.13.16.1989.27379@NET.BIO.NET>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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