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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> Florian> Ugh, does anybody still use RFC 822 source routing?  I
> Florian> don't think so, bang paths and percent hacks might still
> Florian> exist, however.
> 
> It's not just for "source routing".  It's perfectly legal for me to
> set up <merlyn@news@stonehenge.com> to use for Usenet postings.

This is not a valid address in RFC 822 syntax, and thus not permitted
by RFC 1036.  You could use "merlyn@news"@stonehenge.com instead.

> Hmm.  Maybe I just invented a new spamproof address scheme, until the
> scrapers figure this out!

Unfortunately, UUCP rmail can't deal with spaces in local-parts,
that's why I stopped using " "@some.domain.