Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!bbn.com!rsalz
From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: routes vs addresses (was Re: ! and @ -- which RFC ?)
Message-ID: <607@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 8 Apr 88 22:59:22 GMT
References: <603@fig.bbn.com> <2058@epimass.EPI.COM>
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Organization: BBN Laboratories, Cambridge MA
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Joe:
    classify the following as route or address.
    jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net
Me:
    This is an address of the form "local-part@uunet.uu.net" the "%" hack is
    nowhere defined.  Also, you're confusing things because epimass has
    a direct uunet link.
Joe:
    Nope.  Such mail will actually go from uunet to wrl.epi.com and then
    to us, or take a completely different route depending on what's in
    the map data.  epimass does not talk directly to uunet.

Okay, so I had the right answer for the wrong reason:  it's an address
because it does *not* specify any routing information...
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