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From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Parsing dotted 'To:' field in BSDI
Date: 18 Oct 1995 16:19:28 +0100
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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Message-ID: <4635u0$79a@ida.interface-business.de>
References: <45cesj$9d0@pegasus.starlink.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de
<alschnei@starlink.com> wrote:
>I've seen email addresses comprised of the following...
>
>user.mailID@domain.com
By convention, a dot in the name part of an address should always
refer to a "firstname.lastname@domain" address (similar like an
underscore) -- normally an alias. Dashes are reserved for mailing
lists ("mailing-list@domain"), where the administrative account should
be reachable as "mailing-list-request@domain".
--
J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de
[private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]