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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!klaava!hurtta
- From: hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI (Kari E. Hurtta)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: internet mail addresses syntax
- Message-ID: <HURTTA.92Sep6220104@plootu.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 20:01:04 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.180846.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Lines: 30
- In-Reply-To: sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu's message of 5 Sep 92 23: 08:46 GMT
-
- In article <1992Sep5.180846.1@woods.ulowell.edu> sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu (Pete Sabotka) wrote:
- > Sorry for the easy questions, I am Internet-illiterate!
- >
- > What is the significance of a "!" in an internet address ?
- > I often see addresses from the INFO-VAX mailing list with several
- > internet domain names separated by a "!".
- > For example:
- >
- > From: MX%"address1.vms.edu!address2.vms.edu!sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu"
- > ^ ^
- >
- > While I'm posting, what does a "%" mean as well in an internet mail address
- > after a username?
-
- If I read wording of RFC 819 correct, then:
-
- Only woods.ulowell.edu in this address have internet address.
- All left from that address are supposed that woods.ulowell.edu
- know what it is.
-
- That address1.vms.edu!address2.vms.edu!sabotkap seems to me
- as some sort UUCP-bang address. That is valid
- 'local part' in the BNF specification (in Appendix A of RFC 819).
-
- - K E H
- ( Kari.Hurtta@Helsinki.FI,
- hurtta@cc.Helsinki.FI,
- hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI,
- HURTTA@FINUH.BITNET
- )
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