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Re: System wide AMS alias file

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From: Nathaniel Borenstein
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 16:53
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Another thing that would be *really* useful in this regard would be for
some MH hacker to modify MH so that it could properly display ATK-format
mail.  This would be remarkably easy -- the "unscribe" module of Andrew
is very small and self-contained, and could be linked into MH and
applied to any mail with an appropriate "Content-Type" header before
displaying it.  Any interested MH hackers out there?  (Actually, this
could apply to any non-Andrew mailer.  It would probably add about 40K
to the mailer, and would make it display ATK-format mail nicely.)

The mode in AMS for MH/netnews compatibility is
not-ready-for-prime-time.  I keep intending to beat on it in my copious
spare time, but frankly I'm having too much fun here at Bellcore
(experimenting with extended models for email functionality) to spend a
lot of time worrying about this sort of stuff.  I repeat, however, my
long-standing offer of advice and assistance to anyone who wants to work
seriously on making these compatibility modes work well.  (They're
currently something like 90% solutions, but there are a few missing
details.)  I do wish I had found a few extra weeks to work on the
compatibility before I left CMU, but it just didn't work out that way. 
-- Nathaniel
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