From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!unc!smb Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: CSNet opinions? Article-I.D.: unc.3660 Posted: Thu Jul 8 15:33:10 1982 Received: Fri Jul 9 02:42:47 1982 One correction to Mark's comments: aliases are not hard to create in MMDF; in fact, they're about as easy as in sendmail or delivermail. The only thing to watch for is that the file must be topologically sorted -- unlike delivermail, MMDF make one sequential pass through the file, and hence can't catch back-references. Mark's example (mail to 'net.general') will cause problems because '.' is a network delimiter character, and hence is interpreted to mean user 'net' on host 'general'; also, there is no way to directly expand an alias to send mail to a program instead of a file. As Mark noted, it can be done but requires a special userid.