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: > > * 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 [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~gerland