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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: How serious is the at->@ problem?
Message-ID: <4105@phri.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 89 01:51:01 GMT
References: <7867@ditmela.oz>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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In article <7867@ditmela.oz> smart@ditmela.oz.au (Robert Smart) writes:
> The question is: is an "at" in the middle of a domain name like that
> likely to cause problems with broken mailer software around the place?

	I correspond with somebody at psuvm.bitnet.  I often get mail from
him with headers that look like the following.  Note the "AT" in the
In-Reply-To: line.  I doubt this would every cause any problems as all the
"real" addresses are in standard @ format.

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