Parsing ambiguous addresses for electronic services
Peter Honeyman, Patricia E. Parseghian · Software Practice and Experience · 1987
Abstract Pathparse is a tool with a practical approach to disambiguating problematic routes for services such as electronic mail. Pathparse resolves syntactic and host name ambiguities with the aid of a database that describes host connections. The parser generates a set of path/user pairs; heuristics are used to select one among these, which may then be used by a conventional mail handler.