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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Precedence of ! and % (was: sending from MIT to Ireland)
Message-ID: <16463@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 91 19:55:52 GMT
References: <1990Dec18.142213.23820@comm.wang.com> <PCG.90Dec26192702@teachk.cs.aber.ac.uk> <aynnmf.356@wang.com>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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    In article <aynnmf.356@wang.com> fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
    pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

    > Example: a!b!c%d.e.f
    >     on a UUCP machine: route this to the 'b' site which is a
    >     neighbour of the 'a' site, and on 'b' deliver mail to
    >     'c%d.e.f'.
    
    This is excellent advice, and I agree with it 100%, but bear in mind that
    it contradicts RFC1123, which says that the example should be passed to
    d.e.f by whatever means, and d.e.f should decide what to do with a!b!c.

Huh?  I'm curious where in 1123 this is stated.  Or even implied.