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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newalias different on pl 11 ?
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.213609.8520@DSI.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 91 21:36:09 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.143250.14882@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <36527@netnews.upenn.edu>
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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jfk@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (James F. Kennedy) writes:
>alias = address
>while this used to be okay, PL11 seems to require a comment field, so
>the proper format is:

>alias = comment = address

>Making sure all of your lines conforms to this should fix your problem.

>My query is, why was this changed (anybody) ?
It didn't change, it was always supposed to be that way, ie,
requiring a comment, it was only a side effect of a bug that allowed
the other syntax to work.  (IE, you were depending on a bug, we fixed
the bug, so you loose.)
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