Acornell.2629
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utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!eagle!mhtsa!harpo!vax135!cornell!pavel
Sat Mar 13 13:52:47 1982
Baroque (and unrepliable) addresses
I attempted to reply to a news item recently for which the return address
was as follows:
	vax135!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!ucbvax!C70:sri-unix!KING@KESTREL
I have now received my letter back from
	vax135!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!ucbvax!Network:c70
telling me that there was "No such mailbox at this site" where the
mailbox it was interested in was
	sri-unix!king at kestrel

I have two gripes with this:
	1) I should be able to simply reply to any address on the USENET
	and have it get there.

	2) Addresses should be human-readable.  I have been around for a while
	   and I haven't the slightest idea where to put the parentheses in
	   that address!!

Could someone please tell me just what the address means and how it gets
generated and how I'm supposed to reply to it?
Thank you.
		Pavel Curtis
		decvax!cornell!pavel