Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!logicon.com!Makey From: Makey@Snoopy.Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Precedence of ! and % Message-ID: <871@Snoopy.Logicon.COM> Date: 3 Jan 91 22:59:49 GMT References: <1990Dec18.142213.23820@comm.wang.com> Organization: Future Procrastinators of America Lines: 18 In article fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: >Many machines (including UUNET) disobey RFC1123 in this respect, and get >mail delivered. Many other machines comply with RFC1123, and generally >lose mail from UUCP sites that has %'s in the destination address. 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, because it is unreasonable for internet hosts that are also UUCP hosts to do so. On the other hand, it is good advice for internet hosts that are *not* also UUCP hosts, since they would not normally be expected to use ! as a routing operator. :: 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