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From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: using `equal' on email addresses
Date: 06 Feb 2001 05:27:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m13dds9c1g.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8766irtxrj.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>

>>>>> "Florian" == Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

Florian> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> Also, to be maximally careful, the domain is everything after the
>> *last* "@".

Florian> Ugh, does anybody still use RFC 822 source routing?  I don't think so,
Florian> bang paths and percent hacks might still 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.  Only
the rightmost "@" is significant *outside* the mail handler for
stonehenge.com.  Any presumptions about meaning to the left of that
one are quite possibly wrong.

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-06 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-30 15:48 NAGY Andras
2001-01-30 16:17 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-01-30 16:25 ` Jost.Krieger
2001-01-30 18:24   ` Paul Jarc
2001-02-03 18:41     ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-06 13:27       ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2001-02-06 19:58         ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-06 20:14           ` Randal L. Schwartz
2001-01-31  1:25   ` NAGY Andras

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