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- From: csr@calvin.dgbt.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick as CSR Moderator)
- Subject: CFR: "horton" - e-mail directory daemon
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.200050.21039@rick.dgbt.doc.ca>
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- Organization: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:00:50 GMT
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- This is a Call for Reviewers for a new submission to the newsgroup
- "comp.sources.reviewed". Instructions for responding to this CFR are
- included at the end of this message.
-
- Submission Name: horton
- Environment: Unix
- Number of shar parts: 3
-
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- Description
- -----------
- horton - an e-mail directory daemon, whois/ph server, and fuzzy mail forwarder
-
- Horton automatically and silently creates a electronic mail address
- directory by 'finger'ing each host in your domain periodically,
- and lets users look up e-mail addresses with the 'whois' command.
- If your company or university doesn't yet have an e-mail directory,
- this package will provide you with one without much effort on your part.
- It can also be a useful adjunct to a manually maintained e-mail directory,
- because it is always up to date, whereas the manually maintained one can
- lag weeks or months behind changes in the real world. (e.g. Caltech has
- both a manual whois server and a Horton whois server.)
-
- Besides accepting whois queries, Horton can also forward mail addressed
- to John-Miller@horton to the most recent e-mail address for John Miller
- in the whois database. This is sometimes called fuzzy name lookup.
- Horton can, as a side effect, also accept ph queries.
-
- The command
- whois -h horton_server search_key
- where
- horton_server is the name of the computer running Horton
- search_key is all or part of a person's name
- lists all people whose name or username match the pattern.
-
- Horton runs under Unix, and has been tested with SunOS 4.1.1 and
- partially tested with HP/UX and NeXT Mach 2.0.
- It requires sh, csh, and TCP/IP, and relies on other machines (possibly
- VMS systems) to respond to Finger requests.
- The mail forwarding feature requires sendmail and the Perl interpreted
- language; the installation instructions mention where to obtain Perl.
-
-
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- Instructions for Responding
- ---------------------------
-
- If you are interested in reviewing this submission, simply reply to
- this message via e-mail and complete the following information. Your
- message will be read by a script, so there are some instructions to
- follow:
-
- - please insert your information right after the colon and space in
- each relevant line (e.g., Name: John Doe).
- - if your software is in the habit of marking quoted lines with a
- character in the first column, please delete these before sending the
- message.
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- - all special characters (dashes, accents, apostrophes, etc.)
- are removed
-
- Name:
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-
-
- If you are a new reviewer, you should also complete the following
- information:
-
- Full Name:
- (in normal format "Firstname Surname", and no initials please)
- E-mail Address:
- (in the form "user@host.sub.domain (Firstname Surname)")
- I need the Guidelines for Reviewers (YES or NO):
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- The parts of the submission will then be mailed to you.
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-
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- --
- Andrew Patrick acting as Comp.Sources.Reviewed Moderator
- Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
- csr@calvin.dgbt.doc.CA
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