Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site down.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!princeton!down!honey From: honey@down.UUCP (code 101) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: flame on misguided smartness in mailers Message-ID: <70@down.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 07:22:55 EST Article-I.D.: down.70 Posted: Mon Feb 6 07:22:55 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 05:33:59 EST References: <3515@utzoo.UUCP>, <541@ihnp4.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. EECS Lines: 19 gary offers us some choices: give money to his rich employer (why gary? so you can drag home yet larger bags of bucks each week? you industry types make me want to puke!), make people use routers, or shove domains down our throats. personally, i like the second option, since that's what we do in my little domain (such as it is: up, down, yoyo, tilt, flakey, quirky, and princeton). last week i added "-psmart" to the arg list in recmail's call to delivermail, since news replies are exactly the sort of objects that should be auto-routed. (the in group here also does "smart" routing on mail replies and "simple" routing on mail sends, using ver. 2.17 Mail, back-hacked for delivermail.) since delivermail ignores unrecognized args, delivermail -psmart seems like a wise move for the standard version of recmail. of course, recmail has it's problems, e.g., it doesn't have an interface (not even one of those obnoxious user-friendly ones). perhaps Mail should be hacked up to accommodate the References header (as well as anything else the news-ites are planning to throw at us), or perhaps recmail should be made smarter. (in general, news could use some extra smarts in lots of places.) peter honeyman