Re: gratuitous munging of ats in domain names

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From: Bob Page
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1988 23:15

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> 	R$+ at $+	$1@$2

RFC 822 says this is not legal anyway, in case somebody gets upset with
you for rejecting it. (so much for "be liberal in what you accept ...")

     C.5.5.  AT-SIGN

        The string " at " no longer is used as an  address  delimiter.
        Only at-sign ("@") serves the function.

..Bob
-- 
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page

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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
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Subject: Re: gratuitous munging of ats in domain names
Keywords: sendmail, spaces in match patterns, tokenization
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Date: 28 Sep 88 23:15:00 GMT
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