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Re: How to "hide" large distributions in mail

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From: Craig_Everhart
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:21
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Well, gee, AMDS (a local delivery system that's part of Andrew) let you
do this by recognizing addresses of the form
	+dist+FILENAME@domain.name
as valid, assuming that FILENAME is the name of a readable,
correctly-formatted AMDS distribution list.  That is, when the local
part of the address starts with the six characters ``+dist+'', the
remainder of the local part is interpreted as a file name by the
delivery system.

This is pleasant in that it allows anybody with file storage to maintain
their own distribution lists.  Yes, the envelope-from address is, by
default, set to be the owner of the file, or an address specified in the
distribution-list file itself.  And there are a couple of syntactic
constraints on the form of the distribution list file, for self-checking.

Not that you'd probably use AMDS unless you were also using AFS, but I
think that this feature is a good idea.

		Craig
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References: <1993Jan23.203825.767@colorado.edu>

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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:21:23 -0500 
From: Craig_Everhart@transarc.com
Subject: Re: How to "hide" large distributions in mail
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