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From: ed@alt.dah.sub.org (Ed Braaten)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Variants on a theme -- =, + and %
Message-ID: <3890@alt.dah.sub.org>
Date: 2 Sep 90 18:44:18 GMT
References: <1990Aug31.014944.12335@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Organization: Public Access UNIX System for Landkreis/Stadt Dachau, Germany
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scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:

>One of the suggestions made (by me) was that we drop the `+' and `%'
>and use only the `='.  This reduces the number of 'magic' characters in

I would say keep the '=' and '+'.  (Keep '+' for compatibility with nn).
Drop '%'.  In fact you could use '%' as the key for the "Mangle Address"
function in a future release... ;-)  

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