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From: stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: You can't get to Austria from here!
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.172826.2643@engin.umich.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 17:28:26 GMT
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In article <1990Dec5.145056.24286@mp.cs.niu.edu>
	rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>In article <1990Dec5.073026.2121@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
	xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG writes:
>>1) Some kind soul fixed news software so that those with an ancient Unix
>>that treats an "@" as a line kill character as a starting default, and
>>never change the default, could type the "@" sign of a domain address as
>>a field containing "at", and it would get translated to the appropriate
>>"@" sign.
>>
>>2) Some other kind standards body designating two letter names for
>>domain nation identifiers decided that "at" would be the tag for
>>Austria.
>>
> Most mailers do not do this.  Some do.  If the offending mailer is 'sendmail',
>look for a rule something like the following in 'sendmail.cf':
>
>R$+ at $+	$:$1@$2
>
>and simply remove that rewrite rule.

That rule would work properly when given a host.at address, wouldn't it?
It's a rule like:

R$*at$*	$:$1@$2

that would mess things up.  The dot just before the "at" wouldn't match
the space in the first rewrite rule.
--
	Mike Pelletier - Usenet News Admin & Programmer
"Wind, waves, etc. are breakdowns in the face of the commitment to getting
 from here to there.  But they are the conditions for sailing -- not
 something to be gotten rid of, but something to be danced with."