From: Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 12:08:16 CDT
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> > sites implementing %-hack only do it for addresses that they consider to
> > be local, which means that the only sites that would possibly do this are
> > the moderation relay sites.
>
> This is not quite true. Airnews will *not* accept a post, no matter
> **WHAT** the domain-part of the email address is, if the local-part
> contains either an '!' or '%' and it is not syntatically a correct fake-
> uuup or fake-relay email addr. This has burned me a bunch of times [I
> try to approve a post and $%@#$%@#$ airnews bounces it...
But airnews's limitations on email addresses aren't relevant. The %
appears in an email address only in the proxy email address used to get
stuff to the moderator, never in anything that is fed to the news system.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net