Re: Looping Mail with FORWARD

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From: John F. Chandler
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1992 20:56

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> I have added a little bit of code to FORWARD MAILER

> /* change explicit forwards to self to * */

Bravo!  (Or, rather, Brava!)

On the other hand, there is something missing here, namely, something
to handle the user who tries to forward to self@home.BITNET, rather
than to just self@home.  Moreover, it would also pay to check for
.EARN, .NETNORTH, and maybe even some of the newer cooperating
network names, i.e., exactly the same list of domains mentioned in
the MTPLATE file, whatever they are.

I know that many EARN sites have software and/or users who prefer
specifying EARN instead of BITNET, and BITNET sites prefer specifying
BITNET.  This has always seemed rather disorganized to me, but it never
made much difference.  Now, though, I think it would be very healthy to
agree to use only BITNET in e-mail contexts (especially now that there
is no longer a BITNET, Inc. in the US).
                                            John

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