Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:16:13 -0500
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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Dick Duggan wrote:
> When I tried to do a review on this list, the owner information came
> out like this:
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> * Owner= ERIC@SEARN (Eric Thomas)
> * Owner= Quiet:
> * Owner= HAROLD@UGA (Harold C. Pritchett)
>
> I've seen this sort of syntax for an email address before but it's
> not a real email address, only part of one.
Gee, Harold would certainly take offense at that. ;-)
> How does that work? If
> I wanted to send email to Eric or Harold, how would I know their
> address from the above?
LISTSERV began as a BITNET-only application and because of this treats
any Non-FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) as a BITNET address and
sends that mail off to its nearest Internet-to-BITNET gateway for
delivery.
Jim...
Jim Gerland - Manager, Network Information Services University at Buffalo
Academic Services, Computing & Information Technology Buffalo, NY 14260
716.645.3557 Work 716.645.3734 FAX
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