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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: mixed addresses
Message-ID: <1002@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 19 Jul 88 13:09:58 GMT
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>[ Treating % as a delayed @ if there are no other meta-characters in the
>address ] has the same level of "pseudo standardization" that "!" has,
>though the two characters evolved on different planets.

Unh, no.  The "!" character for UUCP routing is documented in RFC976.

I'd also claim that UUCP and ARPA aren't two different planets, but were
at worst two different continents, shared by a few common passageways,
navigable only by some very hardy souls.  In particular, now-civilized
natives of far-off UUCP backwaters fondly remember the great trappers
and trackers that would hang around Old Camp Seismo.

There's definitely been a shift in the plate tectonics, and these
two lands are know merged into one (un)common market.

With apologies to Dave Mills for the second paragraph,
	/rich $alz
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