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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Paths and Precedence (Re: Question about From: lines)
Message-ID: <T:M4WO4@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 13 Jul 90 16:02:42 GMT
References: <++J4QGC@xds13.ferranti.com> <KARL.90Jul10093842@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> <3RK4TQE@xds13.ferranti.com> <269B6560.3F1E@intercon.com> <S2M4Q11@xds13.ferranti.com> <269D048B.5A0C@intercon.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <269D048B.5A0C@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
> Use bang paths.  ...!...!...!f.q.d.n!...!...!... is fine, because it is
> unambigous.

Once it gets to f.q.d.n it doesn't matter whether it's !-pathed, @-ed, %-ed,
if the name after ! is an internet address you're still tunneling uucp
through the internet.

I use smail and convert everything to bang paths anyway.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
+1 713 274 5180.
<peter@ficc.ferranti.com>