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From: bob@basser.SUN (Bob Kummerfeld)
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Subject: Re: suggestion for rmail
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Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 15:42:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 20 15:42:35 1984
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The actual address syntax is a function of the higher level
protocol and has nothing to do with the basic network message
transfer system. The network software sees the addresses split
into user and host, it is up to the mail program to parse an
address and give it to the network in the right form.

I admit we made a mistake using ":" as the separator for our
mail service. We did it because \@ is the kill character on our
systems.

Our mail programs now accept either ":" or "\@" now and we are
tring to get people to use \@. We would plan to change over to
ARPA syntax, domains and all.

Bob.