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From: egisin@orchid.UUCP
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Subject: Re: The Canadian Domain: Introduction to CA
Message-ID: <12072@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 14:36:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 14:36:02 1987
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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]