Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cme!libes From: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Listserv Message-ID: <5159@muffin.cme.nist.gov> Date: 14 Jul 90 19:16:59 GMT References: <1990Jul13.173111.506@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <1990Jul14.101729.15986@squirrel.mh.nl> Reply-To: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 21 In article <1990Jul14.101729.15986@squirrel.mh.nl> Johan Vromans writes: >Just in case anyone wants to try: I have a mail response server that >could be used a a starting point. It handles the interface to the >mailer and knows about RFC822 addresses. >But of course, real programmers never start with something someone >else has written :-). In fact, the opposite. Dave Shaver (shaver@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu) took your code and made a number of improvements to it, as well as making it more portable. I believe it is still 85% your code though. (I used yours originally so I know what it looked like.) Unfortunately, Dave seems to have fallen into a black hole, so I ended up making yet another version with more enhancements. Unfortunately, I'm still a novice at Perl, so most of my additions to the code look pretty grody. (It is extremely difficult debugging when programs have to be run remotely by a sendmail!) I have no interest in distributing this code, and would rather you and Dave get together on this. (I figure a little public pressure might motivate Dave.)