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- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!van-bc!vsystem!rick
- From: rick@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca (Rick Vandenberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Address Munging
- Keywords: UUCP, Bitnet, mailing list
- Message-ID: <5259TB1w165w@vsystem.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 15:14:03 PST
- References: <syV7TB4w165w@ncc1701e.uucp>
- Organization: Vandenberg Systems Research, Vancouver BC
- Lines: 27
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- the_sage@ncc1701e.uucp (Jerome Grimmer) writes:
-
- > I have written some software to distribute mail to mailing list members
- > via the Bitnet Listserv DISTRIBUTE commands. This reduces the load on
- > slow links or long-distance links and also reduces the load on
- > intermediate systems.
-
- Interesting! I'd like to know more, if you can tell me.
-
- > The software so far creates the distribute job
- > fine, provided that I supply addresses that are accessible from the Bitnet
- > computer network. Unfortunately, the From: headers I receive do not
- > always have such nice userid@node.bitnet format, many times from bitnet
- > the headers are the!nasty!bangpath!from!hell!node.bitnet!user, I was
- > wondering if anyone out there had some sort of method for munging these
- > addresses back to userid@node.Bitnet.
-
- Some good examples are found in the UUPC sources, available from SIMTEL20
- and others.
-
- Rick.
-
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