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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Idempotence of S3 (Was Re: IBM Do It Again)
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.115135.23401@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 11:51:35 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.065813.24921@pa.dec.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991Apr16.065813.24921@pa.dec.com> vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:
>Idempotent means, roughly, that doing it N times is the same as doing it
>1 time, for all N>1.  In the case of S3, this is usually accomplished by
>bailing out near the top if the <brackets> are already there, as in:
>
>S3
>...
>R$+<@$+>$+		$@$1<@$2>$3		bail out
>...
 That rule looks like a great idea.  I think I will try it out.  Let me
get that message with

To: John Smith <@BITNET.GATEWAY:SMITH@NODE> 555-1212

 and I will just feed it to 'sendmail' with the '-t' operand, and see
what happens.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940