Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Use of % in addresses? Message-ID: Date: 8 Oct 89 10:07:46 GMT References: <10800001@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 8 To: funk@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu When you see user%subsite@host.subdomain.domain, you should treat everything including before the @ as user data, and things will work. Use of % in addresses (be they recipients or senders) is discouraged in the Internet. For more information, see RFC 1123 sections 5.2.6 and 5.2.16. -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]