On Thu, 04 Jun 1998 08:19:31 MDT, you said:
> On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:42:23 -0400, "Walters, Edwin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >        From: [log in to unmask]
> >        To: "        -         (052)LISTSERV":;@usrsa2.sagus.com(052);
>
> The ':;' before the @ sign, and the (052); after the .com are both illegal and
> improper.

Almost. ;)

The :; is the (deprecated) RFC822 "group" syntax (section 6.2.6),
and the (052) is an RFC822 comment (section 3.4,6). These are legal.
The *real* problems are as follows:

1) The software appears (in my experience) to not understand RFC822
group syntax. This is what's *really* causing the problem.

2) I can't see any BNF in RFC822 that allows it to generate a trailing
semicolon.

For a truly stomach-twisting time, look at section 3.1.4 of RFC822,
where it talks about parsing some truly ugly address forms.....
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech