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From: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Subject: Re: mailcf went away?
Message-ID: <1990Jan2.221543.23923@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
References: <8912292103.AA23678@image.soe.clarkson.edu.> <10656@ucsd.Edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 90 22:15:43 GMT

In article <10656@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>Yes, there's a comment in the sendmail source to the effect that the
>.mailcf capability was deleted somewhere around 5.58 or so because of
>user abuse of the feature.

5.58??

It didn't survive 1984, much less the 4.3 release:

D 4.30  84/05/13 15:45:35       eric    396     395     00000/00000/00005
remove .mailcf hack -- it's been abused.

Chet Ramey


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