Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!decwrl!pa.dec.com!decprl!decprl!boyd
From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Is '@' ever needed?
Keywords: '%'
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.143817.14743@prl.dec.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 14:38:17 GMT
References: <797@minya.UUCP> <1991Jun18.173035.26682@chinet.chi.il.us>
Sender: news@prl.dec.com (USENET News System)
Reply-To: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
Lines: 19
Nntp-Posting-Host: prl313.prl.dec.com

Well, according to RFC 822's syntax you can have a%b%c, but then you're
left with just a `local part' address.  Your network software may well
interpret this in any number of ways, but to me it indicates local delivery.


    addr-spec		: non-local-addr-spec
			| local-part

    local-part		: word
			| local-part . word
			| local-part % word

    non-local-addr-spec	: local-part @ domain


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''