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..... -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech