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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Subject: Re: Alias suggestion for ELM
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.150412.5589@cs.dal.ca>
Summary: Great idea!
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
References: <1991Apr29.085633.8393@cs.ruu.nl>
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 15:04:12 GMT

In article <1991Apr29.085633.8393@cs.ruu.nl> rloon@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Ronald van Loon) writes:
>At the moment, ELM only handles one alias-file ; is it possible
>to add to ELM a commandline-option that will allow to use a different
>alias file ? That way, alias-files can be smaller, it's easier for one-
>time batch mailing (group-aliases) and the like. Of course, to be consistent,
>there an option would have to be added to the alias menu as well.

This is a nice idea.  It would be particularly useful for users
who have lots of aliases on a machine where sysadmin has opted for small
limits on alias files.

Bill
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William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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