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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Something
Message-ID: <2217@prune.bbn.com>
Date: 21 Dec 89 23:34:20 GMT
References: <33886@mips.mips.COM>
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
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In <33886@mips.mips.COM> koblas@mips.COM (David Koblas) writes:
 [ By example:
      user sends mail to: 	user@a
      rewritten to      :	user%a%b%c%d@e
      site 'e' delivers
        to UUCP site 'd':	user%a%b%c@d
      site 'c' recieves :        user%a%b@c
        and site 'c' is
        unable to parse
        a '%' path!
 ]
>Thus my question is: since site 'e' gatewayed the mail message into
>UUCP, should they not change the %@ path into a ! path?

There is no such thing as a %@ path.  It's practically a contradiction
in terms -- an atsign address is NOT a route.  Using more than one % in an
address is asking for real, serious, trouble.

You'll have to find another way to do what you want.
	/r$
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