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From: CALIFFM@BAYLOR.BITNET (Michael Califf)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Is underscore legal in the local-part of an address?
Message-ID: <5E69EDA3445F40EAD8@baylor.BITNET>
Date: 23 Jul 90 16:19:00 GMT
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Don't Panic -

It turns out that the INTERBIT site which was rejecting the messages
is rejecting them based on the (illegal) underscore in the domain part
of the address, NOT the (legal) underscore in the local-part.

I am taking measures locally to remove/replace the underscores from
the offending node names.

That'll teach me to O.K. node names before fully parsing the RFC's :-)

Sorry about that,

Mike Califf                    (POSTMAST[ER])
Communications Software Coord  Internet: califfm@baylor.edu
Baylor University C.C.I.S.     Bitnet:   CALIFFM@BAYLOR