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- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!fmsrl7!ef2007!slee01!mjo
- From: mjo@slee01.srl.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: dxmail on ULTRIX
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 18:29:46 GMT
- Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Co.
- Lines: 32
- Message-ID: <1e8paqINN1de@ef2007.efhd.ford.com>
- References: <1992Nov12.182035.24694@decuac.dec.com> <1e15ghINN2oi@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> <1992Nov16.142027.21114@decuac.dec.com>
- Reply-To: "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: slee01.srl.ford.com
-
- In article <1992Nov16.142027.21114@decuac.dec.com> avolio@dco.DEC.COM
- (Frederick M. Avolio) writes:
-
- :If I have an address
- :
- : something!else%host.UUCP@domain
- :
- :while it is ugly, and I'd rather die than generate such an address, the
- :assumption is that "domain" will handle what is on the right hand side and
- :if it generated it, it must be able to handle it.
-
- Assumption valid, in an RFC Internet universe.
-
- Everything to the left should be resolved by "domain".
-
- Assumption NOT valid in a UUCP universe.
-
- Everything to the right of "something" could get resolved by
- "something".
-
- The initial poster got this address from (as I recall) "a Sun so it
- must be right". I never said that these addresses were invalid, just
- that they tended to cause problems.
-
- ...Mike
-
-
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