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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mail FROM Compuserve
Message-ID: <6194@borabora.omni.com>
Date: 18 Jan 91 00:37:51 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.222714.396@athena.mit.edu> <1991Jan17.033621.24890@jpradley.jpr.com> <1991Jan17.172111.9756@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Jan17.172111.9756@athena.mit.edu> abennett@athena.mit.edu (Andrew Bennett) writes:
>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?

It's wrong.  You really need a '>' character, as in

	>internet:username@machine.domain


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