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From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM
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Subject: Re: Non-RFC822 -conforming addresses under AMS
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Date: 17 Jan 91 20:25:52 GMT
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The code that turns whitespace into commas was only a historical hack at
CMU to parse the typical contents of a ~/.forward file (originally for
sendmail's use).  Unfortunately, people began to depend on its behavior
for use in AMDS distribution lists.  I'd rather rip out that
special-case hack, myself.  It causes lots of confusion for folks such
as yourself and for folks who use a comma after some addresses (in a
dist list) but not all.

There's nothing syntactically wrong with an RFC 822 address built of
spaces and words, as long as there are no ``special'' characters in the
string like ``@:;,<>''.

		Craig