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From: flan@ai.wustl.edu (Ian Flanigan)
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Subject: Re: replying when all I have is ..!something!something_else
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Date: 17 Oct 89 18:23:49 GMT
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In article <1699@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
>In article <5777@merlin.usc.edu> griffin@nunki.usc.edu (Dennis Griffin) writes:
>|
>|	The actual response that mail gives me is "Event Not Found"
>
>aha!  You're using csh, or something else that uses the ! for something
>special.  You need to "escape" your !'s, with \'s.  So mail to host!user
>should be typed mail host\!user.
>
>This bugged me for quite a while when I first started UUCP paths...
>
> Bill

Another thing that you might have to do is add a "@uucp" to the end.  Here
at Wash U, the mailers really don't like bar!foo, but bar!foo@uunet or
foo@bar.UUCP or bar!foo@uunet.uu.net all work dandily.  If you have no
clue as to what the full path to a person over UUCP would be, I'd suggest
the bar!foo@uunet.uu.net.  Happy trails!


Ian Flanigan

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