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Subject: Changes to How to Construct the Mailpaths File
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Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 00:19:56 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 16 00:19:56 1987
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*** old/mailpaths.n	Thu Jan  1 00:19:35 1987
--- src/mailpaths.n	Thu Jan  8 22:52:07 1987
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*** 5,7 ****
  Original-from: Gene Spafford (spaf@gatech.edu)
! [Most recent change: 29 December 1986 by spaf@gatech.edu]
  
--- 5,7 ----
  Original-from: Gene Spafford (spaf@gatech.edu)
! [Most recent change: 8 January 1987 by spaf@gatech.edu]
  
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*** 31,35 ****
  address.  An address of the form "foo!bar!baz@barf" will get converted
! to "foo!bar!barf!baz" and then mailed.  This should work properly,
! but you should test it to make sure.  Note that *any* address with
! more than a single "@" in it is illegal.
  
--- 31,36 ----
  address.  An address of the form "foo!bar!baz@barf" will get converted
! to "foo!bar!barf!baz" and then mailed.  This should work properly, for
! "dumb" mailers but you should test it to make sure; "smart" mailers
! should have the format fields encoded as a simple "%s". Note that *any*
! address with more than a single "@" in it is illegal.
  
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*** 50,55 ****
  imbedded periods within the newsgroup name into hyphens (e.g.,
! "news.lists" becomes "news-lists") since periods have special meaning
! in mail addresses.  Next, the transformed group name is encoded into an
! address using the format-string present on the line matched from
! "mailpaths" and the article mailed.  Thus, a posting to "news.lists"
  from a site with the line
--- 51,58 ----
  imbedded periods within the newsgroup name into hyphens (e.g.,
! "news.lists" becomes "news-lists") because many mailers mishandle
! addresses with periods in the username (periods are supposed to be
! delimiters only in the host/domain part of RFC822 addresses, but some
! mailers "overreact").  Next, the transformed group name is encoded into
! an address using the format-string present on the line matched from
! "mailpaths" and the article is mailed.  Thus, a posting to "news.lists"
  from a site with the line
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*** 77,78 ****
--- 80,82 ----
  	cuae2
+ 	decwrl
  	gatech
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*** 82,83 ****
--- 86,88 ----
  	mcnc
+ 	rutgers
  	sdcsvax
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*** 84,85 ****
--- 89,91 ----
  	seismo
+ 	tektronix
  	uw-beaver