Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Paths and Precedence (Re: Question about From: lines) Message-ID: Date: 2 Jul 90 16:41:32 GMT References: <2833.2674c5b3@mccall.com> <14298@ucsd.Edu> <2836.26750678@mccall.com> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 20 In article , lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: > % has no precedence at all. If you insist on > checking for it, let it be the lsat thing you check before final > delivery (thus giving it lowest preference). That's what I said I was doing. > End of tirade. Here, have a cookie. > Because the mail > specification designed to be an end to end protocol, ``routing'' other > than through the use of MX records is strongly discouraged. Except that sometimes you need to use ! routing to get to a site that understands domains, but you're going through a site that understands @ for local mail only. What would you do? I'd do a!b!c!d!u@e, but then c will complain about not being able to get to e. a!b!c!d!u%e is, on occasion, the only game in town. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.