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From: richl@lumiere.UUCP (Rick Lindsley)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: What's with the colons ... and other imponderables
Message-ID: <1170@lumiere.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 20:27:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: lumiere.1170
Posted: Wed Sep 18 20:27:45 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 05:08:16 EDT
References: <10263@ucbvax.ARPA> <263@mot.UUCP>
Reply-To: richl@lumiere.UUCP (Rick Lindsley)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
Lines: 25
Summary: 

In article <263@mot.UUCP> fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen) writes:
>it seems some of this domain addressing is not working to hotly.
>i recently received a msg from ..!seismo!decuac!decuac.UUCP!user
>						???????????
>and also ..!tove.ARPA!user instead of ..!user@tove.ARPA
>	    ?????????
>
>the former creations are unusable for returning mail.

Afraid I must disagree ... as long as they are usable to the site before them
they should not bother you at all. Unless ... you aren't trying to rewrite
them are you??? Then of course you must be very wizardly to figure out the
implied routing. We routinely send out things with
...!tektronix!site.domain!further-path if it is going to make it easier on
us to return it. We interpret site.domain and figure it out for you,
don't worry. (Even if it is to tell you we can't get there from here.) In
fact, all uucp mail goes out with all addresses converted
to ! format (if we can decipher the address as handed to us) because some
of our neighbors dislike @'s, :'s, and %'s in all their beastly forms.

Lastly, >>> it is a BAD idea to mix !'s and @'s <<< this cannot be repeated
enough.

Rick Lindsley
Postmaster


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