gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) (09/13/85)
In article <1300013@ccvaxa>, preece@ccvaxa.UUCP writes: > if I ran a mailing list with 50 people > getting it, the link from me through uiucdcs and ihnp4 would get all > 50 copies of every distribution and every response, as opposed to one > copy in news form. There are things we can do about this. I posted the mods to sendmail to make it safe to forward to multiple recipients over a uucp link (without overflowing command buffers in uux) awhile ago. Sun runs these mods to its sales offices and some other mail partners (who are known to accept multiple recipients in "rmail" commands). The mods are now in the 4.3bsd sendmail, thru the efforts of Bill Nowicki and Eric Allman. This doesn't help much if the next site down the line doesn't do the same; and if the paths get long, only a few fit in the uux buffer; but this is just a reminder that there are technological improvements we can make in the -mail- system as well as the -news- system...
peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (09/26/85)
WHat happened to the suggestion to make some mods to make groups like mail.guitar possible? The idea was that each machine should have a mailbox called something meaningful, and the body of any mail to that box be sent through rnews. I don't think you'ld even have to add any software... even sites without sendmail could run a daemon each night to pick up new mailnews. You just wouldn't pass mail.* on to anyone. Or maybe you would... just don't make it global. For followups you just have to put in the right moderator. I think I'm up to writing the daemon...