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- From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: GEnie now exchanging Internet mail
- Date: 4 Sep 1992 08:19:40 +0200
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
- Lines: 23
- Message-ID: <186v5sINN1hp@smurf.smurf.sub.org>
- References: <1992Aug28.131348.17650@homebase.vistachrome.com$ <78949@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Sep2.232447.16149@homebase.vistachrome.com>
-
- In comp.mail.misc, article <1992Sep2.232447.16149@homebase.vistachrome.com>,
- andy@homebase.vistachrome.com writes:
- >
- > user.name@genie.geis.com - so for example,
- > andy@genie.geis.com
- > There is no need to remove periods, dashes, or spaces from the user name.
- >
- However, be sure to _quote_ names with spaces, as in
-
- "andy user"@genie.geis.com
-
- or you may be in for a surprise.
-
- NB: If your mailer doesn't parse those addresses correctly, you may be in
- for a surprise anyway. What's more, since there may still be difficulties
- with names like these because of UUCP-rmail links, support for an alternate
- scheme such as RFC 1137 might make sense.
-
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