Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1+some 2/3/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!mordor!dual!fair From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: parsing host1!user@host2 - a new idea Message-ID: <842@dual.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 22:03:32 EDT Article-I.D.: dual.842 Posted: Wed Oct 17 22:03:32 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 01:52:50 EDT References: <691@sunybcs.UUCP> <1606@nsc.UUCP> <1608@nsc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 24 I'm about ready to bring up sendmail here at DUAL, and my rules of thumb are quite simple: 1. When you're on the ARPA INTERNET, obey RFC822 exactly (i.e. `@' takes precedence). 2. When you're on the UUCP network, obey UUCP bangist conventions (i.e. `!' takes precedence). 3. Rule 1 takes precedence over Rule 2. In our case, since we're not on the ARPA INTERNET (too bad), I will implement Rule 2. This is especially important for us, since we have UUCP connections to not one, not two, but four ARPA INTERNET sites. These rules will keep the gateways working, and should prevent any problems with internal internets that people have running around (like we now do), because they reflect the current state of the world of networks. Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA dual!fair@BERKELEY.ARPA {ihnp4,ucbvax,hplabs,decwrl,cbosgd,sun,nsc,apple,pyramid}!dual!fair Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California