Prompting users for "Cc:" in Mail after message composed is confusing

Paul Killey paul at caen.engin.umich.edu
Fri Nov 30 14:07:35 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov19.205345.18063 at terminator.cc.umich.edu>,
honey at citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman) writes:
|> in SLIME, the mail environment we use here at CITI, we alias "." to
|> nobody (which is itself an alias for /dev/null).  end of problem.
|> 
|> 	peter

with apollos, we count on a registry "feature" such that getpwnam(".")
returns the entry for root instead of NULL, so all mail sent to dot
goes to root.  No bounce problems.  Additionally, askcc has the effect
of deletecc in apollo pads, and the bounce problem is thereby avoided.

Just one more example of domain/os superiority over Unix.



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