Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!eagle!flinton
From: flinton@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: What does %u mean to smail 3?
Message-ID: <5676@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 90 21:47:14 GMT
References: <110@puzzle.UUCP>
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In article <110@puzzle.UUCP>, news@puzzle.UUCP (newshound) writes:
 
> What significance does %u have to smail 3?  
> 	username%uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu@my_backbone
> was resolved to
> 	username2155879098okmax.ecn.uoknor.edu@my_backbone

That looks like a Pennsylvania phone number (215) 587 9098 (!) -- in your
dialers setup, perhaps?

> How can I escape the % so that smail reads it literally?

Hunches and guess-work: use %% ?  use /% or \% ?  quote the whole 
address-string?  or avoid the problem with !-path addressing syntax?

Anyway, be glad your O/S doesn't treat % as the token marking the start
of a mere _comment_ (as the local VAX used to do with the ! symbol).
								      -- Fred