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From: matthews@udel.EDU (John Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: ! vs @ Precedence
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Date: 21 Feb 89 21:48:14 GMT
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Could some please give me some pointers to where a standard might exist that
says that I should parse addresses like this:

	node1!node2!node3!user@machine.xxx.edu
	[   ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ]  go to machine.xxx.edu first.

	instead of

	node1!node2!node3!user@machine.xxx.edu
	     [ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ] pass this address to node1 first


I always thought that the first was always the way to go, but I have seen
mailers at Bell Labs doing differently.   Which should always have highest
precedence?   Please feel free to point me to any RFCs that contain this
information.

Please respond to m here at udel with "matthews@udel.edu".  I don't always
get a chance to keep up with all of the newsgroups.