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In article <3546@cbosgd.ATT.COM> mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
>In article <16238@amdcad.AMD.COM> bandy@amdcad.UUCP (Andy Beals) writes:
>"We" may have BSMTP, but the fraction of net sites that support BSMTP
>is pretty tiny.  The most widespread implementation has a serious
>problem: it blindly throws the BSMTP file at sendmail -bs and hopes it
>works - if anything goes wrong, the mail is thrown on the floor.  Because
>of this, hardly anybody is using BSMTP today.  I sure won't write code
>that assumes that everybody supports it properly.

Well.  In the hopes that everybody would start using BSMTP, I've finished
my BSMTP program to where I'm now letting myself call it "Version 1.0".
I gave Mark a pre-release of this program and it dissappeared into
the smail project somewhere (I forget who it was given to).  Anyway,
I've already sent this to Rich $alz (as of around 27-28 Apr) and he
says his backlog is "3 weeks".  So expect it to start making it's
rounds of the net around the middle of May.  I've cleaned this program
up a LOT since I gave Mark the early copy.

Anyway.  After I'd finished the program I tried to figure out how the
net would go about using it.  I still haven't figured it out very
well but have a few ideas.  Details are in the README in the source
distribution.  Basically I don't know how we'll know which sites out
there can run BSMTP.  Eventually *all* sites will want to do it, but
for now not all will.  For a time we can live with hand-building tables
for routing to BSMTP sites, but eventually we'll want some more
automatic mechanism (like with pathalias now) to do this.

I've set up a mailing list here to discuss bsmtp.  To join the list
send mail to "bsmtp-users-request@ms.uky.csnet".  We also appear
to the world as "cbosgd!ukma!" and "ukma.bitnet".  Of course, the
mailing list is just "bsmtp-users".  And, yes, that's a legit way
to handle our csnet hostname, and until our Computing Center manages
to get our domain name that's what we're stuck with.



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