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Article #3966Re: How to "hide" large distributions in mail
From: Craig_Everhart
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:21
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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Organization: Sponsored account, Applications Software, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!cfe+ Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Message-ID: <gfNKI3T0BwxI8LiWYZ@transarc.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:21:23 -0500 From: Craig_Everhart@transarc.com Subject: Re: How to "hide" large distributions in mail In-Reply-To: <1993Jan23.203825.767@colorado.edu> References: <1993Jan23.203825.767@colorado.edu> Lines: 19