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From: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
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Subject: Re: Can I use the "filter" program?
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Date: 2 Jun 89 15:19:05 GMT
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dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Dan Heller) writes:
>chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>> IMHO, a better solution is the "deliver" program
>Why is a separte program necessary?

Because "deliver" is a very powerful generalized tool.  It just happens
that it solves the original problem very nicely.  I've got an entire
system for gatewaying an Internet mailing list into USENET built upon
deliver.
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Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337
"I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Mom