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From: sob@academ.UUCP (Stan Barber)
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Subject: Re: whether to prefix myhost! onto the From: or not..
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Date: Sun, 14-Jun-87 07:51:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 14 07:51:13 1987
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In <177@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar writes:
>The routing software for UUCP is *not* free. It doesn't cost anything, but
>boy does it ever chew up those disk blocks and CPU-seconds. Some people just
>don't have the power to spare... and I'm not just talking about private nodes.

Given this philosophy, I guess you should give up on using UUCP mail all
together. :->

Basically, smail is one program. It adds one more link in the chain of mail
that usually includes /usr/ucb/Mail (or equivalent) and uux (and friend
uucico). The database to support smail can be LARGE or small. It is your
option. smail does one thing that the user agent and uux do not usually
do... they make the mail RFC-822 compliant. This is getting more and more
important as the internet becomes more expansive.

By the way, if you are a private node, then you would have to send
an AWFUL lot of mail to chew up most of the CPU power of on any
reasonable computer (80286, 68000 and up). For "multi-user" nodes,
mail is just like any other function. If it is important, then resources
will be made available. Otherwise, it is not important.

-- 
Stan	     uucp:{killer,rice,hoptoad}!academ!sob     Opinions expressed here
Olan         domain:sob@rice.edu                            are ONLY mine &
Barber       CIS:71565,623   BBS:(713)790-9004               noone else's.