uucp and preserving Reply-to: how?

[Dale R. Worley]

My impression is that the combination of UUCP (!) and Internet (@)
addressing was handled much better 5 or so years ago, when hundreds of
companies were "one UUCP hop off the Internet".  Now that everyone and
his kid brother is directly connected, people aren't worrying about
UUCP addressing any more.

But if I remember correctly, the convention was that

	foo!bar at baz

meant "send by SMTP to baz, who will send by UUCP to foo", and that

	foo!bar%baz

meant "send by UUCP to foo, who will send by SMTP to baz.  Basically,
the precedence is % > ! > @. That works for getting mail between the
Internet and a one-hop-removed site.

Dale
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