[TUHS] Mailer History -- was Berkeley CSRG Building

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On Wednesday, August 14th, 2024 at 9:45 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

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> The issue came when people started using the mail system as a programmatic messaging scheme (i.e., fork: some_program | mail user) and other programs started to parse the output.
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Mail as IPC...that's what I'm reading from that anyway...now that's an interesting concept.  Did that idea ever grow any significant legs?  I can't tell if the general concept is clever or systems abuse, in those days it seems like it could've gone either way.

I guess it sorta did survive in the form of automated systems today expecting specially formatted emails to trigger "stuff" to happen.

- Matt G.