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From: RAF@CU.NIH.GOV ("Roger Fajman")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  New Host-Requirement RFCs
Message-ID: <8910280328.AA20985@alw.nih.gov>
Date: 28 Oct 89 02:22:08 GMT
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> > P.S. - If it's all so easy, how come the From address in the message
> > that I am replying to had an ! in the local part?
>
> Why do you care whats in the LOCAL part? It's none of your business.

The author of the message I refered to was making the point that everyone
on other networks, such as BITNET, should register a domain and use MX
records, so as to eliminate the need to use % in the local part.  Yet
that person had a ! in his local part, which is just as much of a hack
as %.  Sauce for the goose...