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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands
Date: 26 Aug 94 23:02:10 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA
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brewer@hamlet.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) writes:
>               Smail has always been a way to keep track of the 
>huge myriad of uucp addresses but not a replacement for sendmail
>which handles multiple mailers, networks, and address schemes.

smail has come quite aways from it's humble UUCP origins. It certainly
doesn't have all the capability of sendmail but it's quick and easy and
can handle enough diversity for me...
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