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Re: what to do with (as yet) illegal dom - (nf)

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From: rpw3
Date: Sat, 19 May 1984 08:04
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fortune!rpw3    May 18 21:17:00 1984

+---------------
| ...We intend to munge it to something like EITHER
| 
| (1) <@WISCVM.ARPA:USER@BNETHOST.BITNET>
| (yes, I guess with some noise before the "<"), OR
| (2) USER%BNETHOST.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA
| 
| ...Does anybody have any opinions about this?  Would anybody mind if
| a source-route has an unknown domain in other than the first position?
+---------------

Having just composed a long ramble in "net.mail" on quoting, I wonder why
the following would not be both legal and preferred:

  (3) "USER@BNETHOST.BITNET"@WISCVM.ARPA


Rob Warnock

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Subject: Re: what to do with (as yet) illegal dom - (nf)
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