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From: lien@osu-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: withdrawing mails
Message-ID: <3144@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 00:27:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 18 00:27:36 1987
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Reply-To: lien@osu-eddie.UUCP (Yao-Nan Lien)
Organization: The Ohio State University, CIS Dept.
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> It is sent to the destination quickly

There may have  no way to withdraw it once it arrives
/usr/spool/mail/name/xxx in current UNIX implementation.

How about  a modification in BSD4.x such that the files in 
/usr/spool/mail/receiver can also be writable by sender.

By doing this, it may not be too late before it is readed.

This is the point that US mail beat E-mail:

One can alway withdraw a mail from one's own mailbox before
mailman comes. This is usually one  night and one  morning
( may be one long weekend ).

Yao-Nan Lien


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