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From: ahd@sun.soe!clutx.clarkson.edu (Drew Derbyshire,,,9143397425)
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Subject: Re: Domain Registration (was Re: rewriting FROM: lines)
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Date: 31 May 89 01:58:21 GMT
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From article <25019@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, by wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner):
> (Someone, anyone, please, please tell me, what kind of a stoopid return
> address is ahd@sun.soe!clutx.clarkson.edu?)

It's wrong.  Next question?  

My REAL address is simply ahd@clutx.clarkson.edu, but the interaction
of "vn" and the news server on sun.soe.clarkson.edu yields the funky
address.  I'm just visiting this system, so I don't complain (much).

> Close, but not quite. Every host beyond the first must be followed by
> a comma rather than a colon. In other words,
> 
> 	@x.y.z:you@a.b.c		(this is valid)
> 	@p.q.r,@x.y.z:you@a.b.c		(this is also valid)
> 	@p.q.r:@x.y.z:you@a.b.c		(this isn't)

ooops.  Excuse me, I have to go fix a piece of code that assumes the
former.


Drew Derbyshire
Clarkson University Class of 1989 (7 years late)

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