On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Jacob Haller wrote:

> >On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:01:11 -0400, "Hugh W. Jarvis"
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>I ran a yadda@*.ru  (for a Russian address) and the
> >>return included two rutgers.edu accounts!
>
>
> Scanning for yadda@*.ru matches [log in to unmask] because
> it matches a substring of that address as follows:
>
>         [log in to unmask]
>         yadda@    *    .ru
>

  That implies implicit right truncation.   I have always understood
    that in querying for e-mail addresses all truncation had to be
    explicit; that for  [log in to unmask]  to be retrieved
    the search would have to be:  yadda@*.ru*

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