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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.mail,net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: Avoiding expansion of mail's metacharacters
Message-ID: <5893@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 14:34:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 14:34:58 1985
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References: <1391@cbosgd.UUCP> <2637@sun.uucp>, <1043@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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> > [...put all the info in the file, not in argv...]
> 
> This won't always work.  Suppose you've got a message
> 	To: ihnp4!cbosgd!bill, decvax!decwrl!june, sdcsvax!sdcc3!george,
> 	    ucbvax!ucbfunky!ellen
> 
> When ihnp4 gets this message, what should it conclude?  That it should
> only try to deliver the copy to "ihnp4..."?  Even if it has
> direct paths to sdcsvax and ucbvax?  Or should it just try to deliver
> to everyone?

The answer is, it should be looking somewhere else than the RFC822 To:
line to decide who it should deliver to.  The idea will work fine, if
you don't insist on force-fitting RFC822 onto it.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry