Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!scott
From: scott@stl.stc.co.uk (Mike Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: mixed addresses
Message-ID: <796@acer.stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: 26 Jul 88 08:12:18 GMT
References: <8807142016.dusip.andrew@stl.stc.co.uk> <3503@palo-alto.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: scott@stl.stc.co.uk (Mike Scott)
Organization: STL,Harlow,UK.
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In article <3503@palo-alto.DEC.COM> vixie@palo-alto.DEC.COM (Paul Vixie) writes:

>But, um, has anybody got users on their systems with "%" as part of the
>user identifier?  Probably a few, but vastly: no.

But it's not just user identifiers... consider a system where mail
is being gatewayed on a VMS machine between the un*x world and the
DEC foreign mail interface which uses a % character in the address to
define the interface - for example, mail from PSS has the address prefix
"PSI%", which can wreak some havoc when replied to by the unwary!
-- 
Regards. Mike Scott (scott@stl.stc.co.uk <or> ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!scott)
phone +44-279-29531 xtn 3133.