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Article #64Quiz - Parse this From line
From: dat
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1985 00:17
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1985 00:17
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Ken Stone of HP-SDD sent me his copy of my recent note and the return address is the strangest I've seen yet on this network... >From noscvax!@MIT-MC.ARPA:hpfcla!hpcnoe!veeger!hpcnou!dat@hplabsd Tue Dec 17 13:35:41 1985 The question is - how does one parse this? There are a LOT of ambiguities here ... including two '@' addresses and such. It seems to me that a decent return address would be parsable in a unique fashion, rather than this "if the destination machine is an ARPA gateway then it'll send to (?) hplabsd, if not, then if it's a BITNET gateway it'll send to MIT-MC.ARPA (through an ARPA gateway?) else it'll just send it to noscvax and let THEM deal with it... Anyone have any pearls of wisdom about all this? ----- for further amusement, the modified From line too...(now wrong) ---- From: noscvax!hpcnou!dat@hplabsd.ARPA (Dave Taylor) ----- Are we having fun yet? -- Dave
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!hpcnou!dat@hplabs.ARPA From: dat@hplabs.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Quiz - Parse this From line Message-ID: <864@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 19:17:00 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.864 Posted: Wed Dec 18 19:17:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Dec-85 06:17:13 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 24