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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Converting Internet addresses to UUCP addresses
Message-ID: <270@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 22 Jan 90 18:14:14 GMT
References: <325@fltk.UUCP> <2193@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <1160@scorn.sco.COM> <1644@dsac.dla.mil> <160.25af4890@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> <WISNER.90Jan21131413@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
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In article <WISNER.90Jan21131413@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
	wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) writes:
>Using more than one at sign in an address is Officially Frowned Upon
>and, in fact, if you do so, the Internet Protocol Police will hunt you
>down and do you grievous bodily harm.

While it's now officially frowned upon, the IPP will *not* do you
grievous bodily harm if you do it responsibly.  Let's suppose you
have an address that doesn't resolve--like HAYES.FAI.ALASKA.EDU
for example.  (nslookup says the only valid *.fai.alaska.edu are
acad3, barney, fred, sxclm, sxjlh, sxtjh, systems, systems1,
ua-gw, and ua-gw2.)  I might try
	@acad3.fai.alaska.edu:wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu
in the hope that acad3 runs a hacked mail system that intercepts
what appears to be a bogus address.  And yes, there's more than
one @ in there.  (Bill, why do your articles look like NNTP
forgeries?)

					-=EPS=-