Re: internet mail addresses syntax

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From: Kari E. Hurtta
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 20:01

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In article <1992Sep5.180846.1@woods.ulowell.edu> sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu (Pete Sabotka) wrote:
> Sorry for the easy questions, I am Internet-illiterate!
> 
> What is the significance of a "!" in an internet address ?  
> I often see addresses from the INFO-VAX mailing list with several 
> internet domain names separated by a "!".
> For example:
> 
> From:  MX%"address1.vms.edu!address2.vms.edu!sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu"
> 			   ^                ^
> 
> While I'm posting, what does a "%" mean as well in an internet mail address
> after a username?

If I read wording of RFC 819 correct, then:

Only woods.ulowell.edu in this address have internet address.
All left from that address are supposed that woods.ulowell.edu
know what it is.

That address1.vms.edu!address2.vms.edu!sabotkap seems to me
as some sort UUCP-bang address. That is valid
'local part' in the BNF specification (in Appendix A of RFC 819).

- K E H
( Kari.Hurtta@Helsinki.FI,
  hurtta@cc.Helsinki.FI,
  hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI,
  HURTTA@FINUH.BITNET
)

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From: hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI (Kari E. Hurtta)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.misc
Subject: Re: internet mail addresses syntax
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Date: 6 Sep 92 20:01:04 GMT
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