[comp.mail.elm] Changes to the Elm Monthly Posting for April 1991

syd@dsinc.DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) (04/25/91)

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  This is the monthly Elm Posting from the Elm Development Group and
  your Elm Coordinator.  Please send all questions and comments about
  this posting or Elm itself to elm@dsi.com (dsinc!elm).  This posting
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! Sun Mar 17 16:48:34 EST 1991
  
  Current release version: Elm 2.3 PL11
  	This version was released at patch level 0.
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  This is the monthly Elm Posting from the Elm Development Group and
  your Elm Coordinator.  Please send all questions and comments about
  this posting or Elm itself to elm@dsi.com (dsinc!elm).  This posting
  generated:
! Wed Apr 24 13:01:32 EDT 1991
  
  Current release version: Elm 2.3 PL11
  	This version was released at patch level 0.
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  Planed next version: Elm 2.4
  	Current Elm 2.4 status: In development
! 	Expected release date: not before July 1, 1991 (Likely Fall 1991)
  
  As of release 2.1, Elm is now being developed by a cooperative venture
  of volunteers loosely being called the Elm Development Group.  There are
! approximately 26 developers and an additional 16 testers, participating
  at various levels of activity.
  
  Comments, bug reports, feature requests, etc.  should be sent to
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  Planed next version: Elm 2.4
  	Current Elm 2.4 status: In development
! 	Expected release date: not before September 1, 1991 (Likely Fall 1991)
  
  As of release 2.1, Elm is now being developed by a cooperative venture
  of volunteers loosely being called the Elm Development Group.  There are
! approximately 40 developers and an additional 16 testers, participating
  at various levels of activity.
  
  Comments, bug reports, feature requests, etc.  should be sent to
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  	uk.ac.soton.ecs		T.Chown@ecs.soton.ac.uk (bitnet)
  				T.Chown@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
  
+         In Australia:
+         ftp.adelaide.edu.au     Mark Prior, mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au
+           (129.127.40.3)
  
  
+ 
  Starting with release 2.2, the Elm Development group will attempt to
  provide official patches to the release version to fix problems reported
  at the same time we are working on the next release.  Also starting with
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       complete interlocking to prevent this.
  
  UB14 [next item	goes here]
- 
- New Features/Changes in 2.3:
- 
- This section will list some of the new features, or changes to the
- appearence or functioning of Elm in this new version to reduce the
- surprise element.  This list is not designed to be a complete list
- of the changes in 2.3.
- 
- 1.  Aliases will now be case insensitive.  This as per the survey
- results of Elm users and matches sendmail aliases.
- 
- 2.  Elm will no longer be able to access the L.sys/Systems file
- itself.  It will only use the output of uuname for security reasons.
- If no uuname command exists, then unreachable address warnings
- are not performed.
- 
- 3.  Support for NFS in that the alias data file can be kept in
- network byte order.
- 
- 4.  Support for MMDF style mailboxes.
- 
  
  
  
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                          Voice: (215) 947-9900
syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd                        FAX:   (215) 938-0235