Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: To parse the unparseable dream Message-ID: <10437@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 26 Oct 88 04:18:06 GMT References: <3566@phri.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 26 In article <3566@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: > > What would you do if you saw the following on a To: line? > >Roy Smith Actually this isn't too bad ... The embedded comment is a little strange but is legal. Of course, we all know that "philabs.philips.com.weiser.pa" is really a couple of things concatenated together. The tail part of that is (as I recall) Mark Weiser's name & "domain" within Xerox. The rest is domain name for part of philips.com ... BUT, syntactically this address is perfectly correct. It is only wrong in its SEMANTICS. What our system here would do? Well, I'm assuming for the moment that MMDF's address parser is correct enough to handle that right. I believe that it is ... So anyway, we'd pass it over to xerox.com and it's their problem to figure out who to give it to... -- <-- David Herron; an MMDF guy <-- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <-- <-- Controlled anarchy -- the essence of the net.