In his letter, Valdis states: >I think the way we ended up with headers of the form "@ node" <user> >is that it got '@node:userid' as the address. >Probably, some site used [log in to unmask]:IBM-Nets%bitnic.bitnet' >as the address. I am told that this *IS* legal syntax, but I can't remember >whether it is RFC822 or RFC733 that allows this flake. I know that *I* >sure don't like it. > >Ah, for a fully RFC822, full-domain world. > > Valdis Kletnieks Ah, but Valdis, think of all of us UNIX hacks that can't connect to everybody, and therefore use @machine-who-can-connect: as a transport to the 'fully RFC822, full-domain world'... 8-) Anyway, I think that the @host:user%node is very easy to parse, all you have to do is look at the first thing after the @ sign and go from there.. -abc