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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!basser.cs.su.oz.au!tmx!asstdc!bart!fredmail
- From: imb@asstdc.oz.au (michael butler)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: "Standard" Behavior of $[ $] Syntax (?)
- Message-ID: <725197380.AA08581@bart.asstdc.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:59:00 +1100
- Sender: fredmail@bart.asstdc.oz.au
- Lines: 15
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- rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
-
- > Sendmail is different from other networking software.
-
- [ .. ]
-
- > But the ambiguity is a big problem for
- > non-interactive software, such as mail transfers.
-
- I experienced a somewhat graphic and tragic example of 'smart' name completion
- not so long ago .. a fully qualified and correct address in Siberia (*.su) was
- magically transformed into an unknown and unreplyable Sydney University
- site-name (*.su.oz.au) :-(
-
- michael
-