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Berthold Paffrath bp at nic.dtag.de
Tue Sep 22 16:34:14 CEST 1998

>   On top of that, I suggest to clearly describe the requirement to quote 
>   any "leading" dot(s) that are *not* supposed to be converted to an '@' 
>   character. 
>   Like in wilfried\.woeber.univie.ac.at !

and add a warning that, at least with versions of BIND before 4.9.3 and
perhaps some of the usual tools, this does not always work as expected,
so you better avoid having a dot in the username part if possible.

Berthold Paffrath

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