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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Are underbars considered bad form for addresses in  RFC822 headers?
Message-ID: <Apr.1.17.35.54.1988.3117@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 88 22:35:56 GMT
References: <4289@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: The Office of Mismanagement and Bean Counting
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RFC822 which is the specification used for headers in Internet and
USENET messages (but not necessarily UUCP mail) allows _ in the local part
(to the left of the @).  Underscore is a legal charater in an atom and
is not required to be quoted (as certain other characters such as period).

-Ron