29 Nov
2018
29 Nov
'18
8:40 p.m.
On 11/29/18 11:36 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
Without extreme tweaking, it wouldn't handle
foo!bar!bas%bitnet(a)grubkle.edu
<mailto:bas%25bitnet@grubkle.edu> correctly... Mostly because it was
ambiguous and the definition of correct changed as we went from being a
UUCP leaf node to being a full denizen of the internet on NSFNET.
Exactly. That is inherently ambiguous and subject to local policy. There is
almost no way to handle it "correctly" in all situations.
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