Path: utzoo!lsuc!maccs!dan
From: dan@maccs.McMaster.CA (Dan Trottier)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: using Path: for mail replies
Message-ID: <1382@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 24 Aug 88 13:01:39 GMT
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In article <70@volition.dec.com> vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:
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>Registering in the u.* files costs nothing; smail is available for free;
>you don't need a full database, or a 32-bit machine to run pathalias since
>you don't need to run pathalias; smail will run on SysV or SysIII or BSD,
>and probably V7 and Xenix.

The point is that many users out there are not motivated enough or lack the
sources of information that we (administrators of large sites) have access
to. I personally know several people who have Unix workstations/computers 
that have never used the C compiler. A lot more software is being sold as
binaries and that is what these people run.

Isn't it time that one of the big Unix distributors (AT&T, Berkeley)

         (-:   -- Sun is just a Value Added Reseller --   :-)

bite the bullet and add a smart mailer to their distribution. This wouldn't
make their Unix incompatible or in any way change base functionality. All
they would need is an rmail that was smart enough to look in a file for a
forwarding host.

Dan Trottier
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