Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!nosc!logicon.com!Makey From: Makey@Snoopy.Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Precedence of ! and % Message-ID: <873@Snoopy.Logicon.COM> Date: 4 Jan 91 23:16:20 GMT References: <871@Snoopy.Logicon.COM> Organization: Future Procrastinators of America Lines: 25 In article lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: >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. My statement is quite correct, thank you. I am just using the word "precedence" in a different manner than RFC 1123. The last time this question came up (in comp.mail.uucp) I wrote to Bob Braden, the indicated author of RFC 1123, and asked for a clarification. His response was: >It was intended to indicate that the message would be delivered to >c, who would interpret a!b as the local part. Regardless of how one defines "precedence" or interprets parentheses, this is *not* the way UUCP hosts should work. :: Jeff Makey Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department Disclaimer: I am just a guest of Logicon. Domain: Makey@Logicon.COM UUCP: ucsd!snoopy!Makey