Yes, this was all put up in response to Arnold's forwarding my inquiry. I
wasn't on the mail where permission for posting was given, so wasn't sure how
widely to publicize the delivery. Now that that's all cleared up: much thanks
to Arnold for tracking this down (and Mike Lesk, of course).
I ha
> http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub///mirrors/minnie.tuhs.org/Documentation/Papers/Email_No_Aliases/
I'll take the credit for this. :-)
I asked on the TUHS list, was pointed to Mike Lesk, asked him for the
paper, and he graciously supplied it. A few people on that list (also
on 9fans) supplied pointer
On 26 February 2013 07:35, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> So I
> googled the directory and presto chango. Took about 3 minutes.
>
The dates on the file and the file with the e-mail exchange with Lesk
suggests the file only turned up there on 14 Feb this year,
which probably explains why it wasn't quit
"An average mail message to a remote site takes 6.8 seconds
of 11/70 CPU time ..."
Those were the days.
Maybe it was unpublished? It isn't listed on Professor Lesk's published
works page.
http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/pub.html
Ian
Does anyone on the list have a copy of or pointer to
"Electronic Mail Without Aliases", by Elliott and Lesk?
It's referenced in the 8th Edition Unix manual, but
I've never read it (and only have vol1 of the manual).
