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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Pathalias/uumail: some algorithms and questions
Message-ID: <309@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 08:43:43 EST
Article-I.D.: gould9.309
Posted: Wed Feb  5 08:43:43 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 21:59:59 EST
References: <122@delftcc.UUCP> <1954@peora.UUCP>
Organization: CACI, Inc. -- La Jolla, Calif.
Lines: 27
Summary: RTFM

In article <1954@peora.UUCP>, jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
> > Okay, first question.  Given a path
> >
> >         a!b!c!...!p!q!r!stuff@z
> >
> > which name(s) do we try to look up?  
> 
> My algorithm was to look up "a", iff "a" is not a neighbor. 
> "z" definitely should not be looked up; that is the essence of
> what I've been arguing for for a long time now,

although jer@peora.UUCP, like some other uucp-only sites, expresses
a preference for ! precedence, many of us have to co-exist in
the ARPA-mandated RFC-822 world, which requires "@" precedence.

If someone wants to have "!" precedence for his personal use, fine.
But anything that claims to be a generalized smart mailer must
support "@" precedence, at least as an option.  As <gnu@hoptoad.UUCP>
remarked in an earlier message, learn from DEC and Sun and don't show
your particular addressing problems and perversions to the rest
of the net.

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	Joel West	 	(619) 457-9681
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