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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Bug in alias
Message-ID: <541@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 16 Mar 90 18:32:22 GMT
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Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +011 (415) 966-1151
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Bradley Smith writes that an alias of the form:

   alias = whatever = localname, host!remotename

fails.  Syd comments that it's designed that way.  Curiously, though,
I find that my version is *not* like that.  In fact, I created the
following alias:

   test = testing = tutcom, decwrl!vixie, joe, nancy@mips.com

where "tutcom" is another alias in my alias file.  Letting Elm
then expand it:

   % elm test
   To: tutcom@usenix.org (Usenix Tutorial Evaluation Committee), decwrl!vixie,
       joe, nancy@mips.com
   Subject:   

Notice that it picked up and expanded the "tutcom" alias, and left everything
else alone.  Further, we can even have aliases that point to aliases and
so on...

The question is, if this is in the version of Elm I gave to Syd and the
Usenet development group, how come it's ended up not being part of the
code??   Strange but true...

						-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California

taylor@limbo.intuitive.com    or   {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor