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From: honey@umix.cc.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Do `%' and `!' imply (Data link layer) connectivity information?
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Date: 7 Jan 88 00:04:15 GMT
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Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
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In article <1804@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>If you run a current Internet mailer, it will try to find the host,
>fail, and then obtain an MX record telling it to pass the message to
>uunet.uu.net (our official Internet forwarder).

backwards -- look for MX before A.  see rfc974.

incidentally, the orignal message asked if anyone could speak
authoritatively on the subject.  the answer is "no, but watch 'em
try."  sorry, couldn't resist.

	peter