ahby@meccts.UUCP (Shane P. McCarron) (09/25/86)
I have been handling a few local mailing lists that discuss various projects, and they have been getting larger and larger. They way I handle a message is that I send the message individually to each person on the list. Recently, I noticed that the volume for this was pretty high, and that a number of the messages all followed common paths for some of their route. I had also noticed that the smail program (which was recently posted to the net) would group messages that were going to the same site together, so that only a single file is sent. Consequently, I modified my mailer script to do a: mail `cat users` < file This worked as you would expect from my previous paragraph, routing mail to the correct machines and such. Unfortunately, one of the downstream sites choked on this. It seems that his mailer (rmail) can't handle more than one destination. These X. files would attempt to execute, blow off and exit. My question is: Is this a wide spread problem? I know that I can fix it on this particular site, since it is in the same building I am in, but am I going to cause problems for EVERYONE on my mailing list if I go back to this simpler, more efficient scheme? -- Shane P. McCarron UUCP ihnp4!meccts!ahby MECC Technical Services ATT (612) 481-3589 "They're only monkey boys; We can still crush them here on earth!"