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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Question on group names in headers
Message-ID: <8164@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 26 Oct 90 17:47:01 GMT
References: <710@dptspd.sat.datapoint.com>
Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <710@dptspd.sat.datapoint.com> lcz@dptspd.sat.datapoint.com (Lee Ziegenhals) writes:
>	To: some.thing.or.another.;@some.where

You are right, this is a syntax error.

>I know very little about mail headers, so I would appreciate any comments
>on the subject.  Smail is not following the "be liberal in what you
>accept" policy here, but I would like to know if this form of addressing
>is valid or not before I go munging the code.

There is a point where it is not worth being liberal enough to accept
certain strings of garbage.

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