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From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: Problem with ams
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Date: 22 Oct 90 13:09:02 GMT
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If you aren't running AMDS, I don't think that xyz+ should validate
either, because the delivery system is going to end up rejecting it
anyway.  (Unless, of course, it turns "xyz+" into simply "xyz" in which
case it is harmless.)

If you're not running AMDS, there is no way that the xyz+abc form will
be deliverable, so it makes sense for it not to validate.  Thus the bug,
if any, is that xyz+ does validate.  And, as I said, if it removes the
"+" in the validation process then I don't see where there is any real
bug...