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cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis) (07/18/84)

Does anyone know of a way to simply mail something to Foobar@Bletch and
have the computer figure out a way to route it ? Certainly something 
could digestify the multiKiloByte maps we keep getting into a machine
readable path list or some such. Why not generate a file of the form
Site: path!to!the!site!from!here
Site2: Another!path!for!another!site
etc

Then make mail (or Mail or mAil or maIl ...) smart enough to take it 
from there. Then my signature would be only 2 lines. (I feel I have
to keep in a disclaimer) ? Since unix is supposed to be a hackers
dream why not start hackin' While we are at it, how about a program
for reading the mbox file in my directory and give me headers and
let peruse any message in any order, lets write MM for this poor excuse
for a user interface.

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spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) (07/24/84)

>Does anyone know of a way to simply mail something to Foobar@Bletch and
>have the computer figure out a way to route it ? Certainly something 
>could digestify the multiKiloByte maps we keep getting into a machine
>readable path list or some such. Why not generate a file of the form
>Site: path!to!the!site!from!here
>Site2: Another!path!for!another!site
>etc
>
>Then make mail (or Mail or mAil or maIl ...) smart enough to take it 
>from there. Then my signature would be only 2 lines. (I feel I have
>to keep in a disclaimer) ? Since unix is supposed to be a hackers
>dream why not start hackin' While we are at it, how about a program
>for reading the mbox file in my directory and give me headers and
>let peruse any message in any order, lets write MM for this poor excuse
>for a user interface.

Gee, Chuck, you mean you don't have software at your system that does
either of those?  Everybody else in the civilized world seems to.
Maybe you're just not looking in the right places....  Have your
system admin contact me and I can send him more routing software
than he'll ever want to see!  So there.  And your little dog too.

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