Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!uunet!drivax!frotz From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Interesting header/error message Message-ID: <4N22VYW@dri.com> Date: 15 May 91 17:26:28 GMT References: <1991May13.033329.24202@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991May13.112332.20564@oar.net> Sender: frotz@dri.com Reply-To: frotz@dri.com Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA/USA or none (see also My_Desk) Lines: 24 karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu writes: ]les@chinet.chi.il.us writes: ] From: Bruce D.Becker ] ^ ^-illegal period in phrase ] \-phrases containing '.' must be quoted ] Is this really an error? Does anyone else add headers like this? ]Rayan's mailer is unquestionably to be awarded Most Picky Mailer Ever ]Devised, but it has the good taste to deliver anyhow, in view of the ]wide disregard for this particular bit of syntactic pedanticism. Illegal-Object: Syntax error in To: address found on relay.cs.toronto.edu: To: John D.Fa'atuai ^ ^-missing end of address \-extraneous tokens in address So, is this a problem with me, or with the address sent to me? -- John "Frotz" Fa'atuai frotz@dri.com (email@domain) Digital Research, Inc. uunet!drivax!frotz (bang!email) c/o MIS Dept. 408/647-6570 or 408/646-6287 (vmail) 80 Garden Court, CompRm 408/649-3896 (phone) Monterey, CA 93940 408/646-6248 (fax)