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From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgroup vote counting: a proposed modifacation
Message-ID: <536@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 12:40:09 EST
Article-I.D.: hqda-ai.536
Posted: Fri Nov 13 12:40:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 09:45:31 EST
References: <4965@oberon.USC.EDU> <6695@ut-ngp.UUCP> <1578@haddock.ISC.COM> <419@pcrat.UUCP>
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Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
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Summary: Everyone *can* run a smart mailer

In article <419@pcrat.UUCP>, rick@pcrat.UUCP (rick) writes:
> Some machines can't run smart mailers, because they can't run pathalias.
> If a machine can't address more than 64K, there's no hope in crunching
> the maps into something usable.

     It is not necessary to run pathalias over the full map data,
or even to *have* pathalias, in order to run a smart mailer.
Smail 2.5, for instance, can run just fine given a 3-5 line
description of your local connections.  One of these is a
psuedo-machine called "smarthost".  Mail to unknown addresses is
given to this machine for delivery.

     A good solution is for a small machine to keep only the map
entries describing areas where that machine has connections.  For
a very small site, their upstream news feed may well be willing to
act as a mail relay, also.

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