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From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
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Subject: Re: Mail routing -- problems showing up
Message-ID: <1994@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 22:35:49 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 28 22:35:49 1985
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References: <3018@nsc.UUCP> <2875@topaz.ARPA> <4787@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Reply-To: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover)
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In article <4787@mit-eddie.UUCP> gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) writes:
>I have always held that there should be precedence-specifying characters
>(i know parens are already in use, but we could use another character
>like {, or even change rfc822, for the purposes of cross-net mailing
>where domains are not yet in effect).  It's not that hard to do, and it
>makes sense (like in a compiler).
>
>I should never be restricted to expressions like
>
>2 * 3 + 4
>
>in my programming language if I have a need to multiply the quantity 3 +
>4 by 2, I should be (and am able) to do this by saying
>
>2 * (3 + 4)
>
>I shouldn't have to worry about my context (am I in a *-over-+
>environment, or not?).  Similarly, if I'm on a machine that has
>!-over-@, I should be able to get my UUCP mail through another ARPA
>machine if I need to, e.g.
>
>{allegra!friend}@harvard.arpa

I agree ...

However, the way I read rfc822, the <> characters do what you want.
Your example becomes 

	<allegra!friend>@harvard.arpa

And there's other ways using rfc822 to specify routing.  Like,

	@harvard.arpa,friend@allegra.uucp

will work.  (I may not have that EXACTLY correct...
the , may be a : f'rinstance).

The real problem is that not everybody will convert to rfc822 mailers.

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--- David Herron
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