Xref: utzoo gnu.emacs.help:145 comp.emacs:9377 Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!scenic.wa.com!pauld From: pauld@scenic.wa.com (Paul Barton-Davis) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Subject: mail aliases Message-ID: <9010221540.AA05018@scenic.scenic.wa.com> Date: 22 Oct 90 15:40:31 GMT References: Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 18 Jamie Zawinski (on gnu-emacs-sources) posted some elisp code to use abbrevs instead of a .mailrc file. He noted ... ;;; do anything about it. You will never again be screwed because you forgot ;;; to delete an old alias from your .mailrc when a new local user arrives and ;;; is given a userid which conflicts with one of your aliases. ;;; ;;; So delete those .mailrc files right now! I can't believe that people are doing stuff like this. All this effort to automate something that could be fixed by much more minimal attention to detail, and at the same time removing interoperability with existing tools. Is this really what GNU is spawning ? Paul Barton-Davis ScenicSoft, Inc. (206) 776-7760 "Industry without art is brutality"