>I have a subscriber who is getting errors on administrative Listserv
>mail from SMTP on our IBM _and_ from LSMTP on our Alpha.  The only
>book I have here (1) with a definition of what's valid in a FQDN says
>the underscore, as used below, is legal.  I'm also not clear how it
>got to Maelstrom from SMTP3 if the error is at our end.
 
As much as I respect Marshall (I inherited his chair when I went to work at
the Wollongong Group), if he says that underscores are legal in a host or
domain name, I believe he's in error.  Underscores have been widely
_tolerated_, but they are not, to the best of my knowledge, legal.
 
 
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