Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vmp!oc
From: oc@vmp.com (Orlan Cannon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Paths and Precedence (Re: Question about From: lines)
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.235334.5511@vmp.com>
Date: 2 Jul 90 23:53:34 GMT
References: <2833.2674c5b3@mccall.com> <14298@ucsd.Edu> <2836.26750678@mccall.com> <42765@cornell.UUCP>
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In article <42765@cornell.UUCP>, parmelee@wayback.cs.cornell.edu (Larry Parmelee) writes:
> 
> Using parens to indicate precidence in mail addresses may be misleading-
> it may be clearer to say that "a!b%c" should be parsed as "HOST ! MAILBOX",
> where "HOST" is "a" and "MAILBOX" is "b%c". The message should be sent to
> HOST, and then it's up to HOST to interpret the MAILBOX part.
> 

On the other hand, I always look at the "a!b%c" as being just another
implemtation of " LOCALADDRESS @ HOST ".  That is, after the original
host is stripped away, the "%" has the same meaning as "@" and the "!"
is merely another normal character to be dealt with by mailers that
don't know any better.


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Orlan Cannon                            oc@vmp.com
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