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- From: tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: a!b@c
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.074053.1397@Veritas.COM>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 07:40:53 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.171241.20094@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Organization: VERITAS Software Corp.
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- In article <1992Nov11.171241.20094@news.acns.nwu.edu> skrenta@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rich Skrenta) writes:
- >In other words, which is it:
- >
- > a!b@c -> @c:a!b
- > a!b@c -> @a:b@c
-
- According to RFC822 and RFC976, the only correct interpretation is @c:a!b.
-
- >And what of:
- >
- > b%a@c
- >
- >Is there a standard which addresses this? Are most sites giving
- >@ higher precedence, or !?
-
- b%a@c is @c:b%a. According to RFC1123, a!b%c@d is @d,@c:a!b. However,
- this renders the % character useless in the UUCP zone.
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