Acbosg.1444 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!cbosg!dale Fri Jan 8 08:32:29 1982 enhancement to UNIX mail program I continue to be frustrated by all the wasted resources resulting from mailing a response to a USENET article back through the path that the article traveled. Does anyone see any problems with making a change to the mail program (or delivermail in BSD) to parse the addresses of mail addressees to strip off initial systems in the address if the originating systems can communicated directly to a subsequent system in the address? The only glitch that I can think of is that mail would need a way to know what systems the current system can communicate with. I am reluctant to give mail read permission of L.sys for security reasons. But it also seems rather expensive to fork/exec uuname or some other program to get the needed information every time mail is sent. Comments? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.