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From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: ! and @ -- which RFC ?
Message-ID: <4557@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 02:39:47 GMT
References: <12798@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <12798@brl-adm.ARPA> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
>
>You want to avoid mixing ! and @ if at all possible (and it is
>almost always possible)

What if you have a bunch of uucp machines that only know ! addresses
and you don't want to store routing info on all of them anyway.  One
machine can talk to the rest of the world, and some of the others are
two (local) hops away.
Where you have machines a!b!c, is there an acceptable way for machine 
a to request machine c to do its routing, assuming a and b only know
uucp ! addresses?  Does the answer depend on b not knowing about @?

Leslie Mikesell
                    ...ihnp4!chinet!les