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From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.misc,net.flame
Subject: Re: article signatures
Message-ID: <9198@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Jul-84 22:59:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 23 22:59:58 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 09:19:44 EDT
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Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
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>Does anyone know of a way to simply mail something to Foobar@Bletch and
>have the computer figure out a way to route it ? Certainly something 
>could digestify the multiKiloByte maps we keep getting into a machine
>readable path list or some such. Why not generate a file of the form
>Site: path!to!the!site!from!here
>Site2: Another!path!for!another!site
>etc
>
>Then make mail (or Mail or mAil or maIl ...) smart enough to take it 
>from there. Then my signature would be only 2 lines. (I feel I have
>to keep in a disclaimer) ? Since unix is supposed to be a hackers
>dream why not start hackin' While we are at it, how about a program
>for reading the mbox file in my directory and give me headers and
>let peruse any message in any order, lets write MM for this poor excuse
>for a user interface.

Gee, Chuck, you mean you don't have software at your system that does
either of those?  Everybody else in the civilized world seems to.
Maybe you're just not looking in the right places....  Have your
system admin contact me and I can send him more routing software
than he'll ever want to see!  So there.  And your little dog too.

-- 
Off the Wall of Gene Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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