[21444] in Athena Bugs
Can we have Mail back?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Feb 8 02:27:44 2003
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 02:27:41 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200302080727.CAA26387@multics.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
After having been thwarted too many times (when using others'
accounts), and by watching people lose on trying to send trivial
small pieces of mail, I begin to wonder; can we just drop this?:
alias Mail 'more /usr/prototype_user/README.mail ; echo \!* > /dev/null'
I think the advantage of people being able to send mail with "Mail foobar"
(instead of "\Mail foobar") outweighs the potential for confusion of
die-hard Unix users who come from faraway places where the Mail command
is the powerful mail program of the land.
Opinions?
--jhawk
README.mail:
Athena does not support the traditional ``mail'' command. Please refer
to the document "Electronic Mail on Athena". This document is available
in hardcopy at no charge in the Copy Tech Center in the basement of
Building 11. This document, and many others, are also available on-
line: type "help" at the athena% prompt for a listing of documents
and then click on a title to view your selection.
p.s.: maybe this is better for source-developers? It seemed overly
trivial. Perhaps source-reviewers? that seemed overly final.
