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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!ray
- From: ray@Celestial.COM (Ray Jones)
- Subject: Re: Doing mail lists.
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:20:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.222024.24885@Celestial.COM>
- References: <1992Dec12.160017.5528@linus.mitre.org>
- Keywords: mail list, aliases
- Lines: 25
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- In <1992Dec12.160017.5528@linus.mitre.org> bdickens@elara.mitre.org (Brian Dickens) writes:
-
- >Hi everyone...
-
- >I am trying to get a text file mail list into a UNIX usable format. The way the list was sent
- >was something like this:
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- >alias bob blah@blah.blah.blah
- >alias phil blah@blah.blah.blah
- >alias mary blah@blah.blah.blah
-
- >alias bp bob phil
- >alias bpm bob phil mary
- >alias mb mary bob
-
- >Is there some sort of "Mailing list" that uses this format? Some kind of .mailalias file or
- >something? I assume the list came straight off a UNIX machine.
-
- Looks like my "elm" alias to me. elm is a public domain mail front end for
- UNIX. BTW, elm is great!
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