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From: andrew@garfield.UUCP (Andrew Draskoy)
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Subject: Re: parsing host1!user@host2 - a new idea
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 16:21:26 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 16:21:26 1984
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Re:  using ()'s to decide precedence in addresses.
The main problem is that this is not in RFC882.
What IS in the standard is using double-quotes to delimit an atom.
Hence the addresses

"joe@blah.ARPA"@foo.BAR.UUCP
and
"a!b!c"@host.ARPA
and maybe even
a!b!c!"user@host.ARPA"

should work if I read the standard correctly.  Since no one seems to be
doing this, I suspect that there is a problem with this.  If that is the
case, I would like someone to tell me why.

Andrew Draskoy
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