Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Precedence of ! and % Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 91 19:14:52 GMT References: <1990Dec18.142213.23820@comm.wang.com> <871@Snoopy.Logicon.COM> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 15 Makey@Snoopy.Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) writes: >The recommendation in RFC 1123 that internet hosts give higher >precedence to % than to ! (e.g., mail addressed to a!b%c should be >delivered to c, which then interprets a!b) is unfortunate... It is also untrue, Jeff. There was one confusing example in the RFC (see my previous message), but they stated quite clearly that % should have lowest precedence of any routing operators, if you give it any at all. AND they specifically give ! as an example of an operator that should have higher precedence. Next subject, please. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]