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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: History questions
Message-ID: <2715@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 15:02:32 GMT
References: <73125@cc.utah.edu>
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In <73125@cc.utah.edu> NAHAJ@cc.utah.edu (John Halleck) writes:
>Why does the delimiter macro ( Do.:%@!^=/[] ) NOT include comma, left
>angle bracket, or right angle bracket?
The delimiter character indicates what separates tokens within an address.
Comma and <> are used to indicate addresses in the header.

>What address formats use = or / for anything? (Since I don't see rules
>that use them.)
Nothing that anyone really cares about any more, except perhaps the
/mail filesystem. :-)

Here is what I've been using:
    ##  Token delimeters -- word separators in the rewrite rules below.
    Do.:%@![]

And I'm tempted to follow the Host Requirements RFC very strictly and
drop : and source routes altogether...
	/r$
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