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From: johnc@haddock.UUCP
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Subject: Re: uucp mail inefficiency
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Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 13:21:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  7 13:21:51 1987
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Reply-To: johnc@haddock.ISC.COM.UUCP (John Chambers)
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>					...  It would be trivial
>(or at least straight-forward) to design a batched mail system which ran on
>top of uucp -- take all the messages bound for a given site and batch them
>into a single data file and a single XQT file for transmission.  You could
>even compress the files before sending them (just like news does).  I'm not
>sure if it's worth the effort, but it could be done.  

It would be rather easy.  This is exactly what news does already.  All you'd
have to do is clone the batch command and make it put a different program
name in the lines in the message that say "#rnews".  Then you clone the rnews
program and give it the new name, and modify it so that it passes its files
to a routing mail reader, which would discover the embedded "To:" lines and
send them on their way.

Alternatively, you could be even lazier and read the installation instructions
for creating the to.<host> newsgroups.  Instead, you create some mail.<host> 
newsgroups, and arrange with your neighbors to install a daemon (a clone of
the uumap package) that automatically reads these groups and sends the mail
on to the next host.  Presumably the daemon would just hand the articles to 
the same routing mailer.  Of course, you want to compile usenet with the 
FASCIST option in usenet, so you can prevent local users from perusing the 
mail.* newsgroups.

Let's see, there's gotta be yet another cute way to do it....

[Hey, anyone wanna pay me to do it?]

-- 
	John Chambers	(617)247-1155 <...!ima!johnc>
[The above opinions are my own; for a small fee, they can be yours, too.]