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From: holtz%cascade.carleton.cdn%ubc.CSNET@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (Neal Holtz)
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Subject: Sharing Software
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Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 21:45:07 EST
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A bit of traffic over the past few days has reminded me to ask
about better methods of sharing software.  An interesting model
is the Math Netlib <netlib@anl-mcs.edu>.  You send it messages
whose entire contents are something like:
 
    send index
or
    send whetstone from benchmarks         (I think)

and promptly (and untouched by human hands) you get a reply of the
requested stuff.  Thats really great for sites like us that
cannot directly FTP from ARPA hosts.

Doesn't sound like that answering software is terribly hard to 
write -- I think I know how to do it with our mail system in a day
or two of work (though I could get fooled).

Might that be worthwhile to have for Apollo software?  Sounds like
something ADUS could do (along with accepting mailed submissions).

Topic for the ADUS meeting?