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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