Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!ucsd!ames!pasteur!agate!ig!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: precedence of % when there are no @'s in the address (was mail survey) Message-ID: Date: 7 Sep 88 06:24:47 GMT References: <4740@b-tech.UUCP> <677@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <4595@umix.cc.umich.edu> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biologists Lines: 6 To: honey@citi.umich.edu Just a minor point. RFC822 mentions nothing about %. Does anyone know where % actually came from? It is a horrendous thing, given that there are now THREE ways to accomplish mail routing in the Internet. -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]