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From: lenoirjw@infonode.ingr.com (Billy Lenoir)
Newsgroups: ingr.general,comp.mail.elm,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP Activity & Data files
Keywords: E-mail
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.210245.6237@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 21 Sep 90 21:02:45 GMT
References: <1288@cyprus.INGR.COM>
Reply-To: lenoirjw@infonode.UUCP (Billy Lenoir)
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In article <1288@cyprus.INGR.COM> haliosm@cyprus.INGR.COM (Michael Halios) writes:
[Some discussion deleted]
> Think of a mail message of 30 pages mailed to one site with a long cc 
> list of peoble on the same site. Can't rmail take care the long cc list 
> with one execution ?
> 
> If the uucp connection is a dial up Modem, Money and time can be saved.
> The must be a way to make this more efficient.
> 
> I appreciate any comments or ideas.

Aliases or forwarding (i.e. mailing lists) can help resolve this problem.  
If the document or group of documents are sent to the same people
often, you can send this list to a dummy address that's only function
is to forward mail.  

example:  many people get a copy of a very large TR/CR report on a 
          regular basis.  If this was mailed to an account on cyprus
          called trcr, and the mail file /usr/mail/trcr contained the 
          following info it would route the message correctly: 

          Forward to haliosm me you is3005!someone

          

          The system cyprus would forward the one mail message sent
          to cyprus to users haliosm, me, you, is3005!someone.


Sendmail would handle this even better.  You just add an entry to the 
/usr/lib/aliases file for trcr, and you don't even need the account.
Sendmail takes care of forwarding the mail.

IMHO, many of the large mailings that are done currently should
consider using this method of routing mail to remote sites.  It allows
the remote sites some control over who sees the report, without contacting
the originator and it cuts down on the mail volume over dialup links.

Isn't this the method used by the WISE system?

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