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From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner)
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Subject: Re: rewriting FROM: lines
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Date: 20 May 89 05:18:46 GMT
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(Jim Thompson)
>UUCP (and 'bang addressing') are a really stupid way of doing things.
>Hence, foo@bar.UUCP is (almost) as bad as bar!foo.  I have no idea
>which 'bar' you mean.  foo@bar.baz.{com,edu,org,net,...} Does tell me
>which 'bar' you mean, and I have some hope of delivering it.

Pshaw. foo@bar.UUCP is a stupid revolting hack, I'll give you that. But
bar!foo is just fine. It's a UUCP address. It's unmistakably a UUCP address.
When you see bar!foo the first thing you should think is "that's a UUCP
address". And when your mailer sees bar!foo it should think "this is a
UUCP address" and act accordingly.

So what's wrong with bar!foo?