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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: Paths and Precedence (Re: Question about From: lines)
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Date: 12 Jul 90 23:15:23 GMT
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In article <S2M4Q11@xds13.ferranti.com>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da
Silva) writes:
> That's all very well, but in the real world you have little UUCP trees
> hanging off the internet, and pathalias gives you a nice little bang path
> all the way through to the end.
> 
> Your idealism is commendable, but for the forseeable future it's going to
> be necessary to "tunnel" uucp paths through the internet. So how does one
> do it?

Use bang paths.  ...!...!...!f.q.d.n!...!...!... is fine, because it is
unambigous.

..!...!...%...@f.q.d.n is not, because it's not.

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Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.com>
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InterCon Systems Corporation