Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!dsac.dla.mil!nor1675
From: nor1675@dsac.dla.mil (Michael Figg)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Converting Internet addresses to UUCP addresses
Summary: '%' in address?
Message-ID: <1644@dsac.dla.mil>
Date: 12 Jan 90 18:01:26 GMT
References: <325@fltk.UUCP> <2193@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <1160@scorn.sco.COM>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus
Lines: 17

In article <1160@scorn.sco.COM>, davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) writes:
> 
> -that understands the UUCP map. (Try noriega%jail.usa.gov@uunet.uu.net
> -with most mailers.) Mail routing can be very complex.
> 

What does the '%' do in an address like this? Is it saying noriega at 
jail.usu.gov, which is a system that uunet.uu.net knows about?

						 Thanks, 
						 MSF


-- 
"Could we be the bellwether  | Michael Figg  DSAC-FSD
 of major societal shifts?"  | DLA Systems Automation Center - Columbus,Oh
mfigg@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil