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- From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
- Subject: Re: a!b@c
- References: <1992Nov11.171805.20395@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Originator: behrenss@hphalle1b.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 12:46:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.124651.28211@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Nov11.171805.20395@news.acns.nwu.edu>, skrenta@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Rich Skrenta) writes:
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- |> And what of:
- |>
- |> b%a@c
- |>
- |> Is there a standard which addresses this? Are most sites giving
- |> @ higher precedence, or !?
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- Hmm. I think there is a standard, but I can't name it right now. What b%a@c
- does is to deliver to c, which then has to parse the b%a before that, usually
- making it into b@a and then sending it on. Is used a lot with gateways where
- the sending system knows nothing about the net behind the gateway:
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- user%machine-in-other-net@gateway-to-other-net
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