On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:29:03AM -0500,
Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Wilson Fletcher wrote:
>
> > I ried to send to wilson@[203.26.11.154] but it failed. Can someone tell me why ?
>
> Because this form of addressing is obsolete and deprecated. Once upon a
> time MX records were few and far between. That is no longer the case, so
> there's no need for this nonsense.
Except when you are trying to get email through when DNS is broken.
I remember getting ticked off at the people who wrote send mail, because
it insisted on doing reverse lookups of IP addresses before sending email
on to an address with a domain litteral. Trying to send the messages with
telnet was a pain.
