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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: whether to prefix myhost! onto the From: or not..
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Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 03:24:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 03:24:36 1987
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In article <1192@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) quotes der Mouse:
>> Gee, what's that thing on the command line after "mail"?
>> 
>> % mail snarf\!mumble\!scream\!person

and claims:

>That thing is a route, not an address.  This route to "person" would work for
>you only if your host talks to snarf.  

It is both.  A route and an address don't have to be mutually exclusive.
If site `scream' is on the UUCP map, then scream!person is an address
that other sites will recognize and generate a route for.  Smart routers
will also successfully generate a route for snarf!mumble!scream!person,
therefore that is an address too.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi