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From: lmcl@ukc.UUCP (L.M.McLoughlin)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.mail,net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: Avoiding expansion of mail's metacharacters (UK's jmail)
Message-ID: <223@ukc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 12:00:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: ukc.223
Posted: Thu Sep 12 12:00:18 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 05:28:36 EDT
References: <1391@cbosgd.UUCP> <2637@sun.uucp> <1043@sdcsvax.UUCP> <215@ukc.UUCP> <84@l5.uucp>
Reply-To: lmcl@ukc.UUCP (L M J McLoughlin)
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In article <84@l5.uucp> gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>In article <215@ukc.UUCP>, lmcl@ukc.UUCP (L.M.McLoughlin) writes:
>> Jmail is based on the mechanism used by the main UK academic network.
>> ....
>> For example:
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> "[3120,4044]"@edxa.ac.uk,
>> lee@kcl-cs.UUCP,
>> lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk
>> 
>> Date: 02 Sep 85 9:15:29 BST  etc...
>
>Can you leave out the extraneous commas?  Just one address per line
>with no extra characters or delimiters or quotes or modes or whatever
>would be true and utter simplicity...

Indeed I would have was it not for the fact that I had access to a program
(the one for the UK standard) which I used as the basis of jmail and the
UK standard had commas and I was asked not to create yet another standard.

However if one address per line was prefered then why not?


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