Re: sendmail parsing questions: "%"

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From: Bob Larson
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1989 07:08

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In article <27172@cornell.UUCP> parmelee@wayback.cs.cornell.edu (Larry Parmelee) writes:
>	1)	-> host a -> host d -> host c -> user b.
>	2)	-> host d -> host a -> host c -> user b.
>	3)	-> host d -> host c -> host a -> user b.

	4)	-> host d -> user a!b%c

RFC 822 is not at all ambiguos about this.  I consider RFC 976 an
explanation of how some non-rfc 822 mailers do things at best.  RFC
976 adds to the confusion by giving more credibility of the use of !
other than in the local part of the address.  Use of % as a routing
character has never been anything but a hack, as the csnet people who
started it admit, and the need for it will disappear when MX records
become universal.

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