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From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: parsing host1!user@host2 - a new idea
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Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 22:03:32 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 17 22:03:32 1984
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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

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