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encyclo - 8:04 pm on Jan 9, 2010 (gmt 0)
There's this RFC which explains it in full: [tools.ietf.org...]
I haven't tested this in practice, but my understanding is that a wildcard is supposed to match requests for non-existent names only, so in your example, the mail subdomain should be unaffected by the wildcard entry.