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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: elm alias overrides local username
Keywords: elm alias username
Message-ID: <849@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 89 06:29:42 GMT
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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I have been doing some testing as a follow-up on a note by Phil Miller
(my boss) about how elm resolves personal versus system aliases.  I have
verified that a personal alias will take precedence over both a system
alias and a local username, including when those names are used on a
system mailing list.  I do not know if this is good behavior or bad, but
it is something that we need to think about.

I think I will probably change all the aliases in my system alias file
to something obscure like system_username.  -David-

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