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From: abennett@athena.mit.edu (Andrew Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mail FROM Compuserve
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.172111.9756@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:21:11 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.222714.396@athena.mit.edu> <1991Jan17.033621.24890@jpradley.jpr.com>
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Okay, I've got two versions from the net:

:internet:username@machine.domain

internet:username@machine.domain

What's the preceeding colon (:) for om the first one?

-Drew

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