[net.news] Mailing costs as they relate to voting

bstempleton (12/22/82)

When this net finally switches to internet mailing, and all sites do it,
then we'll have both dynamic routing and optimized paths.  This will cut
down any associated mailing costs.

Polls could simply have "Reply-to:" fields that point to the poll address
so the reply command can be used for a poll.   One simple thing is to set
up such addresses on various sites.  Have a standard message one might send
to such an address that contains a subject line of the form
Subject: vote <issue> : <response>

ie.
vote netname : uucp

or

vote net.ai : yes

A simple program that these messages are piped through could extract the
responses and file them under the correct issue for tally at some other
time.