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From: piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: HELP ME OUT....
Message-ID: <2431@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 30 Oct 90 10:48:36 GMT
References: <1990Oct27.010347.13485@watcsc.waterloo.edu> <1990Oct28.210632.26119@engin.umich.edu>
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	>	% - sort of a reverse bang, in a way...  The address in the
	>	    previous example could be rewritten as
	>	    "stealth%m-net%b-tech%caen%umich%mailrus@uunet.uu.net".
That may be true in some places, but not in others.
Since the %-part in user%localhost@yourdomain often
is a locally meaningful entity, there are mailers
around that try to preserve it when rewriting such
addresses to !-style (yourdomain!user%localhost),
since that's the only way to rewrite it from @-style
to !-style *and* vice versa without loss of information.

Please note that this is meant to present facts, not
a call for discussion.

-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam	(piet@cwi.nl)