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- From: skrenta@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rich Skrenta)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: a!b@c
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.171241.20094@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 17:12:41 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov11.171241.20094
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- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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- I used to think that a!b@c meant "give the message to a with address
- b@c" (Perhaps that's what smail 2.5 did?). Lately I've been seeing
- lots of address binding @ the other way: "deliver to c with address a!b".
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- In other words, which is it:
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- a!b@c -> @c:a!b
- a!b@c -> @a:b@c
-
- And what of:
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- b%a@c
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- Is there a standard which addresses this? Are most sites giving
- @ higher precedence, or !?
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- Rich Skrenta
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