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From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: parsing name!user@host
Message-ID: <457@vu44.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 10:28:48 EST
Article-I.D.: vu44.457
Posted: Thu Nov  1 10:28:48 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Nov-84 21:52:26 EST
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Organization: The Retarded Programmers Home, VU, Amsterdam
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As lee@rochester pointed out, there is a problem if you let
UUCP-only sites give precedence to !, and internet sites give
precedence to @.
Well, since there is allready the % as a low-priority @, why
not use that?
A path 'both!sitea!user%siteb' would follow the path
both->sitea->siteb, and a path
'both!sitea!user@siteb' would go through the path
both->siteb->sitea

	Jack Jansen, {seismo|philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack
	or				       ...!vu44!htsa!jack
  "Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure"
			Oscar Wilde, 1894.
  "Most unix(tm) programmers are great masters of style"
			Jack Jansen, 1984.