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Article #348Re: I hate smail + why it is doomed to be wrong.
From: Lyndon Nerenberg
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1987 16:33
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1987 16:33
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In article <140@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk>, stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) writes:
> 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.
But smail *is* our mail delivery system!
Binmail, mailx (Mail), elm, and all the others work just as before.
What smail has done is replace the rmail command, thus teaching our
antiquated mail system about domains and routing. I defy you to find
a "user" who prefers typing "a!q!z!b!r!f!y!l!i_forgot" over "user@site" :-)
Smail (and most of the other routers) work just fine. What we are dealing
with is a typical case of "Garbage In - Garbage Out". *Nothing* is
going to work right until we have some realistic map data.
--
Lyndon Nerenberg - Nexus Computing Corp. - lyndon@ncc.UUCP
UUCP: {ihnp4,ubc-vision,vax135,watmath}!alberta!ncc!lyndon
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!mordor!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!ubc-vision!alberta!ncc!lyndon From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: I hate smail + why it is doomed to be wrong. Message-ID: <1296@ncc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 11:33:44 EST Article-I.D.: ncc.1296 Posted: Tue Jan 13 11:33:44 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Jan-87 23:30:35 EST References: <284@einode.UUCP> <140@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Organization: Nexus Computing Corp., Edmonton, AB Lines: 18 Summary: Eh?