From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <182d7a6313b5436bb9ab6ceae1284af2@coraid.com> From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:28:46 -0500 To: rsc@swtch.com, 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] $smtp dns failure MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 03cbba28-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 '$' seems like an unfortunately choice for dial strings because=20 it is easy to confuse with a shell/environment variable. perhaps a different character could be chosen? net!=C2=A2smtp!smtp the cost of change, unfortunately, would be high. - erik