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# READ THESE NOTES BEFORE MAKING CHANGES TO THIS FILE: thanks!
#
# Since aliases are run over the yellow pages, you must issue the
# following command after modifying the file:
#
#        /usr/local/newaliases
# (Alternately, type m-x compile in Emacs after editing this file.)
#
# [Note this command won't -necessarily- tell one whether the
# mailinglists file is syntactically legal -- it might just silently
# trash the mail system on all of the suns.
# WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE.]
#
# Special note: Make sure all final mailing addresses have a host
# name appended to them. If they don't, sendmail will attach the
# Yellow Pages domain name on as the implied host name, which is
# incorrect. Thus, if you receive your mail on wheaties, and your
# username is johnq, use "johnq@wh" as your address. It
# will cause major lossage to just use "johnq". One other point to
# keep in mind is that any hosts outside of the "ai.mit.edu"
# domain must have fully qualified host names. Thus, "xx" is not a
# legal host name. Instead, you must use "xx.lcs.mit.edu".
# WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE
#
# Special note about large lists:
# It seems from empirical observation that any list defined IN THIS
# FILE with more than fifty (50) recipients will cause newaliases to
# say "entry too large" when it's run. It doesn't tell you -which-
# list is too big, unfortunately, but if you've only been editing
# one, you have some clue. Adding the fifty-first recipient to the
# list will cause this error. The workaround is to use:include
# files as described elsewhere, which seem to have much larger or
# infinite numbers of recipients allowed. [The actual problem is
# that this file is stored in dbm(3) format for use by sendmail.
# This format limits the length of each alias to the internal block
# size (1K).]
# WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE
#
# Special note about comments:
# Unlike OZ's MMAILR, you -CANNOT- stick a comment at the end of a
# line by simply prefacing it with a "#". The mailer (or newaliases)
# will think that you mean an address which just so happens to have
# a "#" in it, rather than interpreting it as a comment. This means,
# essentially, that you cannot stick comments on the same line as
# any code. This also probably means that you cannot stick a comment
# in the middle of a list definition (even on a line by itself) and
# expect the rest of the list to be properly processed.
# WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE
#
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