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From: rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Roby Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: % in path
Message-ID: <1991May04.222359.15759@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 22:23:59 GMT
References: <1991May4.023832.2999@mccc.edu>
Organization: The Tao of Programming
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In <1991May4.023832.2999@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:

>One of mccc.edu's leafs has an address
>	user%hissite.UUCP@mccc.edu

>but smail 2.5 barfs on replying to mail from him.  A couple of people
>have suggested that it is the % that is confusing an "*printf(address)"
>into thinking that the % is conversion string lead-in character, but
>there's no such "*printf()" in all of the source.

I too, have problems with UUCP replies. It would be easier to FORWARD the
message to this person and edit the forwarded message than do a direct
reply. A better path to use would be :
    
    hissite.UUCP!user@mccc.edu

		    Roby

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