Avoiding expansion of mail's metacharacters (UK's jmail)

John Gilmore gnu at l5.uucp
Tue Sep 10 03:47:12 AEST 1985


In article <215 at ukc.UUCP>, lmcl at ukc.UUCP (L.M.McLoughlin) writes:
> Jmail is based on the mechanism used by the main UK academic network.
> The actual lump of text transfered is broken up into two parts:
> 1) the list of addresses to send the message to.
>    the addresses are comma seperated and the list is terminated by an
>    empty line
> 2) the rfc822 message.
> 
> For example:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> "[3120,4044]"@edxa.ac.uk,
> lee at kcl-cs.UUCP,
> lmjm at doc.ic.ac.uk
> 
> Date: 02 Sep 85 9:15:29 BST  etc...

Can you leave out the extraneous commas?  Just one address per line
with no extra characters or delimiters or quotes or modes or whatever
would be true and utter simplicity...



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