Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!oliveb!jerry
From: jerry@oliveb.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Non-human posters
Message-ID: <12310@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 6 Jan 88 20:32:02 GMT
References: <575@ambush.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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In article <575@ambush.UUCP> storm@ambush.UUCP (Kim F. Storm) writes:
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>Are there any non-human readers out there (yet) ?  (-:

Well, actually yes.  Aside from the control messages used for
maintaining the news system itself,  the mail map data is usually "read"
only by non-humans.  Certainly automatically unbatching all those files
and building a database used for mail routing is more sophisticated
processing than the automatic posting examples given.