Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!xanth!ames!sgi!vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: New Host-Requirement RFCs Message-ID: <43710@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 28 Oct 89 18:03:55 GMT References: <1989Oct27.212939.11277@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 22 In article , lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) writes: > ... That is to say, why should we expect sites to > support the % hack, when we cannot expect other sites to support MXes? > ... > Eliot Lear > [lear@net.bio.net] As I understand and use the stupid %-hack, it need not be supported by any other site. Rather, it is parsed here to allow mail from remote sites suffering, for whatever reasons, trouble with MX wild cards. A quick look at the queue here shows a lot of mail to @blah.de.blah,@sdaf...asdf:stuf%more@some.dom.ain For many reasons, I'm sure that such addresses were not invented here. That is, a lot of people are telling other people to use the %-kludge to reach them. Some have proposed rewriting ! to % in mail passing thru a site. That seems Wrong. Vernon Schryver Silicon Graphics vjs@sgi.com