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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:21:23 -0500
- From: Craig_Everhart@transarc.com
- Subject: Re: How to "hide" large distributions in mail
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan23.203825.767@colorado.edu>
- References: <1993Jan23.203825.767@colorado.edu>
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- Well, gee, AMDS (a local delivery system that's part of Andrew) let you
- do this by recognizing addresses of the form
- +dist+FILENAME@domain.name
- as valid, assuming that FILENAME is the name of a readable,
- correctly-formatted AMDS distribution list. That is, when the local
- part of the address starts with the six characters ``+dist+'', the
- remainder of the local part is interpreted as a file name by the
- delivery system.
-
- This is pleasant in that it allows anybody with file storage to maintain
- their own distribution lists. Yes, the envelope-from address is, by
- default, set to be the owner of the file, or an address specified in the
- distribution-list file itself. And there are a couple of syntactic
- constraints on the form of the distribution list file, for self-checking.
-
- Not that you'd probably use AMDS unless you were also using AFS, but I
- think that this feature is a good idea.
-
- Craig
-