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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Mush mail server (@MUSH) info
Message-ID: <12357@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 16:31:33 GMT
References: <40520@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <142881@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <142881@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:
} 
} You can ftp from cse.ogi.edu:pub/mush/mush-7.1.tar.Z -- the
} same thing can be gotten from ucbvax.  If you don't have ftp,
} you can get it mailed to you in a 9-part tarmail archive.
} Mail to schaefer@cse.ogi.edu and include a line that says:
} 
} @MUSH
} 
} An automatic filter mechanism will respond to your message.

Some important notes:

@OFF

An @OFF line will disable the mail filter, if for some reason you want
to include a line beginning with @MUSH in mail I actually see.

The @MUSH syntax above is only partially correct.  Please use

@MUSH your-email-address-here

There continue to be problems with OGI's mailer.  In particular, there
is no guarantee that addresses using mixed domain and uucp syntax will
be delivered successfully.  Case in point:  I just received an @MUSH
request from

    uwm!cs.utexas.edu!hpaustx!stuart
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	This domain name causes confusion.

OGI's sendmail translates this into

    stuart%hpaustx@cs.utexas.edu

which cs.utexas.edu then returns as host unknown (because it doesn't
understand a%b@c syntax).  There is no way for me to prevent OGI's
sendmail from perpetrating this nonsense, so I am completely unable to
send mail to hpaustx.  Sorry, Stuart, you'll have to get somebody with
a working sendmail to send mush to you, unless you have another uucp
connection besides cs.utexas.edu.
-- 
Bart Schaefer						schaefer@cse.ogi.edu