Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!orchid!egisin From: egisin@orchid.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: The Canadian Domain: Introduction to CA Message-ID: <12072@orchid.waterloo.edu> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 14:36:02 EST Article-I.D.: orchid.12072 Posted: Mon Dec 7 14:36:02 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 08:05:50 EST References: <1987Nov23.095020.13055@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1152@looking.UUCP> <1903@geac.UUCP> Distribution: can Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 15 In article <1903@geac.UUCP>, daveb@geac.UUCP writes: > The "From" comment indicates a substantial misunderstanding of the > RFCs on mail: that comment fiedl was to put the real pre-domain form > of your name into if you had a brain-damaged mailer that wouldn't > take "David R. Brown of TSDC" @ Hi-Multics, but demanded the > arpanaut version of the minimalist address: DRBROWN.TSDC@HI-MULTICS. Maybe we are talking about different things, but I don't see anything in rfc 822 that suggests what does and does not belong in comments. Here's any example from rfc 822 that does exactly what I suggested in my original article: it expands an abbreviation in the domain. Childs@WGBH.Boston, Galloping Gourmet@ ANT.Down-Under (Australian National Television) [yes, I noticed the local part is illegal]