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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Brain Damaged Mail Software -- Is there any hope?
Message-ID: <136@graffiti.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 17:29:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 17:29:25 1985
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> Our mailer cannot cope with hyphens, at-signs, or dots in a mail path.
> That really shouldn't be a big deal, but I just read the list of
> moderators of news groups, and there are a few that go to hyphenated
> mail addresses.  Hence we can never mail postings to those moderators.
> And we can't get any mail past (for instance) lll-crg.  Plus uuxqt
> dumps core on a path longer than about 100 characters.

I can help... our site name is hyd-ptd. We're not a major link (more like
a leaf), but I have been considering changing to hydril.

Our mailer, incidentally, is nearly as braindamaged as yours. We do
asscept funny characters but can't pass them on anywhere.

Question to the net: I hear someone wrote a PD mailer called "smail". Peter
Honeyman has been calling it nasty names, but it can't be worse than V7
rmail, and I can always yank the cutesy stuff. Anybody got a pointer for this?