14 Aug
2024
14 Aug
'24
8:58 p.m.
On Wednesday, August 14th, 2024 at 9:45 AM, Clem Cole <clemc(a)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.