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From: msir@sulu.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota)
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Subject: Re: Maximum size (length) of an alias
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Date: 4 Sep 90 20:50:17 GMT
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In article <11854@ogicse.ogi.edu> schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
>The only good way to accomplish this is to use something like
>
>    alias aname aname1 aname2 aname3
>
>    alias aname1 <first hunk of addresses for aname>
>    alias aname2 <next hunk of addresses>
>    alias aname3 <remaining hunk of addresses>

In UCB Mail, you can do
	alias aname <first hunk of addresses for aname>
	alias aname <next hunk of addresses>
	alias aname <remaining hunk of addresses>

I personally think this is pretty ugly and counterintuitive, but maybe
it's also a reasonable solution if this is a problem for lots of people.
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Mark Sirota - University of Rochester Computing Center, Rochester NY
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