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Mon, 28 Jun 1993 17:44:53 CED |
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Message of Mon, 28 Jun 1993 17:39:58 +0200 from <ERIC@SEARN> |
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On Mon, 28 Jun 1993 17:39:58 +0200 Eric Thomas said:
>Sorry, but if I added a kludge to LISTSERV for each and every popular but
>broken piece of software in the network, I'd soon end up with a broken
>piece of software myself :-)
Now LISTSERV took some time to write, LMAIL was a few months. You've been
asked this several times so don't you think it's about time to release a beta
version of your MWAND server? Sure you have something like that. I expect
nothing more than:
* correcting the Date: fields (eg when the clock was incorrectly set)
* setting the address fields to usable values and to what was intended
(quite simple if you do some heuristics eg the case when there are two
recipients because the address was entered with a blank - the host of the
first is local and the userpart of the second a valid domain, well maybe
with a typo but ..., then it's clear what to do)
* matching the subject field to the contents
* replacing n-th time copies of previous posts with hypertext links
* handling all kinds of formats including NOTE, Profs, DecMail, X.400 et al
* translating .snd segments to appropriate character mode representation
like *doo-dah-dabidi-doo blip floing*
* and of course discard notes nobody wants to see anyway with a number of
fake "geez you're right" and "I totally agree" responses to the sender
just to keep him happy
Christian
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