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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 12:14:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1ofwf4lhq.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87elxb7fdf.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>

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

Florian> 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.

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

Oops. :)  Now I remember why I didn't do that.  Blame the "3 hours
of sleep in 48 hours" for that, please. :)

That's what happens when you spend 10 days at sea in the caribbean
with a bunch of other geeks (www.geekcruises.com)... no sleep. :)

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-06 20:14 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
2001-02-06 19:58         ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-06 20:14           ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2001-01-31  1:25   ` NAGY Andras

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