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Article #208Re: Prompting users for "Cc:" in Mail after message composed is confusing
From: Paul Killey
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 1990 03:07
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 1990 03:07
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In article <1990Nov19.205345.18063@terminator.cc.umich.edu>,
honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
|> in SLIME, the mail environment we use here at CITI, we alias "." to
|> nobody (which is itself an alias for /dev/null). end of problem.
|>
|> peter
with apollos, we count on a registry "feature" such that getpwnam(".")
returns the entry for root instead of NULL, so all mail sent to dot
goes to root. No bounce problems. Additionally, askcc has the effect
of deletecc in apollo pads, and the bounce problem is thereby avoided.
Just one more example of domain/os superiority over Unix.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!caen.engin.umich.edu!paul From: paul@caen.engin.umich.edu (Paul Killey) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Prompting users for "Cc:" in Mail after message composed is confusing Message-ID: <1990Nov30.030735.19269@engin.umich.edu> Date: 30 Nov 90 03:07:35 GMT References: <4383@auspex.auspex.com> <1577@peritek.UUCP> <4450@auspex.auspex.com> <1990Nov19.205345.18063@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Reply-To: paul@caen.engin.umich.edu (Paul Killey) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 14