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Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.ai.toronto.edu!rayan
From: rayan@ai.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen)
Subject: Re: .ca domain weirdness with pathalias and smail
Message-ID: <88Dec23.014601est.38044@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
References: <314@ontenv.UUCP> <88Dec17.114819est.38035@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Distribution: can
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 88 01:45:49 EST

In article <984@dgbt.uucp> andrew@dgbt.UUCP (Andrew Patrick) writes:
# According to recent discussions in the info-smail mailing list, it is
# the same old story:  "It's fixed in Smail3.1"!  Smail3.1 is still in
# BETA test.

Yes, but... 

- It is somewhat misleading to claim "fixed in 3.1", since Smail2.x
  and Smail3.x have absolutely nothing in common other than the first
  5 letters of their name.

- Smail3.1 had this wrong until someone from Texas (of all places)
  complained to me about just the problem being discussed.  The
  fellow was quite convinced the behaviour he was seeing was correct
  (he was, after all, beta testing Smail3.x :-), but went back and checked
  and got the Smail people to fix their code.

Nothing is a panacea.  Well, almost nothing ;-)

Now, if only Geoff and Henry would ship Real C News so the poor sun-stroke
people don't have to read this...

rayan