ken wrote: > >this falls way down low in the pet peeve category: > > > >why is it that post, when showing me where my message is > >going to be delivered, says "someone at example.com" rather > >than "[email protected]"? > > > >i'm guessing there's some ancient history surrounding that, but can't > >imagine what it might be. > > That's the old RFC 733 address syntax, and yes, the nmh parser supports
whoa. who knew? thanks. i had no idea it was actual syntax. > it, although I don't know how well it interoperates with some of the > more modern stuff we've added since then. If I had to guess, that's > just a holdover from those days. RFC 733 was published in 1977, and one > of the authors was David Crocker, who worked at Rand at the time. > > (BTW, I've been meaning to try to get in a "What does the Fox Say?" joke > with you on the nmh mailing list for a while now, but I couldn't quite > pull it together). Fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow!!! of course. paul ---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 24.3 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
