[Info-vax] login information capture

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <le354v$30g$1 at speranza.aioe.org>,
	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon <bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu> wrote:
>> In article <le32mj$r9b$2 at speranza.aioe.org>,
>>        glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>>> Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> 
> (snip)
> 
>>>> Double-quote the SMTP email address specification in that MAIL command, 
>>>> or the @ probably won't produce the results you expect.
>  
>>> It has been many years, but I remember cases where you needed to
>>> triple quote them.
>  
>> Now that brings up old nightmares!!
> 
> I seem to remember that it was different if you typed them
> in on a command line, or put them into a file. 
> 
> That was when our VAX didn't have SMTP access, but you could
> forward through another DECnet host that did, with a special
> form of address. And it needed the triple quotes.

For BITNET, too.  Anybody here even remember that?

bill

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