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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Is '@' ever needed?
Keywords: '%'
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.140316.12927@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 14:03:16 GMT
References: <797@minya.UUCP>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Lines: 31

In article <797@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>It seems I can (so far) get  away  with  saying  to  use  '%'  as  the
>internet  list separator, and if you see '@', it is equivalent to '%'.

 Picking a random address from my logs, I see that a local user has
corresponded with:

		STREK-L%PCCVM.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU

 I guess you are saying that you could address this mail as:

		STREK-L%PCCVM.BITNET%cmsa.Berkeley.EDU

 Try this address on a Sun, with the distributed SunOS configuration
file (either sendmail.main.cf or sendmail.subsidiary.cf), and you will
discover that it is rewritten as:

		STREK-L@PCCVM.BITNET%cmsa.Berkeley.EDU

after which it bounces because 'PCCVM.BITNET%cmsa.Berkeley.EDU' is an
unknown host.

 The last time I checked, there were at least one or two SunOS systems
on the net.


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  Northern Illinois Univ.
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