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From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus,comp.emacs,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Proper handling of "%" in Internet addresses.
Message-ID: <612@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 88 16:32:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: ljz%fxgrp.fx.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Lloyd Zusman)

In article <849@fxgrp.UUCP>, ljz%fxgrp (Lloyd Zusman) writes:
) My site has almost perpetual Internet connection problems, and hence
) we have to use another site as our gateway to the net.  Hence, my
) Internet address contains a "%" as follows:
) 	ljz%fxgrp.fx.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov
) I have tried using Gnews and Gnus, and neither seems to handle this
) case very well.  If I specify my domain name as ...
) 	fxgrp.fx.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov  ...
) Now, I realize that we can screw around with our local copies of Gnews
) and Gnus to make them spew out our address correctly, but I'd prefer
) to see something better: how about fixing Gnews, Gnus, and any other
) news software that needs it so that it can handle domain names such as
) mine?

The thing that you are calling your domain name is not.  Any attempt to
use it as one is bound to run into difficulty.  The purest solution is
to get ames listed as a mail-exchanger ("MX") for all your sites.  (You
DO have their permission to route all your mail through them, don't
you?)  If you want the percent-atsign address to be shown on your
outgoing mail or netnews, you should indeed fiddle with your mailer and
your news-poster.  Don't try to shift the blame on software that is
trying to go by the book.

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Matt Crawford	     		matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu