On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:28:59 -0400, Ken Hornstein said:
I have never really understood what the purpose of the group syntax is; I mean, yeah, I've read the RFCs about them, but they deal in kinda vague high-level concepts; I don't really understand how to translate those words into actual code. What the original authors of MH decided was that if you see the group syntax in a draft file, assume the author wanted to obscure the recipients of the message.
Or that it was assumed that everybody who was in a specific group already had access to the set of recipients (for instance, via /etc/aliases or .mh_aliases or other methods. Remember - this dates back to a time when everybody ftp'ed HOSTS.TXT from sri-nic.arpa once a week and ran something that converted it to /etc/hosts or whatever multics and pdp-10s used, etc...
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