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From: rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen)
Subject: Re: C News milestone
Message-ID: <90Nov27.153231est.6912@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
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Date: 27 Nov 90 20:33:02 GMT
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peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>I don't understand what you're getting at. <=8:6F68@xds13.ferranti.com>
>consists of a unique string followed by this system's full domain name.

Uniqueness is a necessary but insufficient quality.  It must also use
valid syntax.  Since : is an RFC822 special character, '=8:6F68' is not
a valid local-part for the message-id.

rayan,
pedant