Re: I hate smail + why it is doomed to be wrong.

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From: Stephen J. Muir
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1987 03:48

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In article <284@einode.UUCP> simon@einode.UUCP (Simon Kenyon) writes:
>using smail just to route uucp mail seems like an interesting thing to do.
>i'm going to try that; and remove all my domain routing crap out of my

A mail user interface should *never* try to interpret the contents of any
header fields.  smail breaks this golden rule.  In particular, it should not
try to do any routing either.  Leave this all up to the mail delivery system.

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From: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir)
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Subject: Re: I hate smail + why it is doomed to be wrong.
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Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 22:48:32 EST
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