From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 10 13:10:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11514 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA11502 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA11220; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:07:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199708102007.NAA11220@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: sb(4) man page To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:07:15 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, garbanzo@hooked.net In-Reply-To: <19970810100623.WM52623@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 10, 97 10:06:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > .\" SoundBlaster and any phrases including it's name are copyright > > .\" Creative Labs, not me. > > .\" > > .\" alex!@bigfoot.com > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > That's IMHO an invalid mail address. You are wrong. See RFC822, page 27, for the definition of an address, which is permitted to be a mailbox, which is permitted to be an addr-spec, which has a local-part, an at sign ('@'), and a domain, and then see that the local part is one (or more, if dot-seperated) words. Then see RFC822, page 12 to see that an atom is any string of one or more characters, not including specials, SPACE, and CTLs, and note that an exclamation point is not a special. That said, an exclamation point *is* a PITA, especially when starting a new message from the command line in a shell where it's a meta character (like, oh, csh and tcsh). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.