[TUHS] man-page style

Chet Ramey chet.ramey at case.edu
Fri Nov 30 05:40:34 AEST 2018


On 11/29/18 11:36 AM, Warner Losh wrote:

> Without extreme tweaking, it wouldn't handle foo!bar!bas%bitnet at grubkle.edu
> <mailto:bas%25bitnet at grubkle.edu> correctly...  Mostly because it was
> ambiguous and the definition of correct changed as we went from being a
> UUCP leaf node to being a full denizen of the internet on NSFNET.

Exactly. That is inherently ambiguous and subject to local policy. There is
almost no way to handle it "correctly" in all situations.

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