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From: scott@castle.ed.ac.uk (Scott Larnach)
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Subject: Re: Problems with dots in From: fields
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Date: 30 Aug 90 12:44:56 GMT
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| Phil Overy at the relay tells me that the problem is caused by the presence
| of dots in this field: thus the example above will work properly, but
| 
|    From: F.Bloggs <fred@uk.ac.lancaster.central1>
| 
| is treated as illegal by the relay, and will get to the BITNET side _without_
| the site name being reversed.

On this machine (ed.castle) we run MMDF which will quote a "real name"
field with dots (and other significant characters). But I still get
reports from people on the other side of the bitnet gateway that they
get our addresses coming through in JANET order, so clearly there are
other conditions under which this will happen.

Scott