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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@pla...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] /n/smtp
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:02:33 +0100

> given i smash a template into sam with B ...

B is acredited to me for the unix sam, but it wasn't
my idea.  rob saw how i was using sam to send mail
via a mechanism that did a B via some god awful X11
thing.  as soon as he saw that he just said that
sam should have a named pipe for commands, thus B.

the idea was John J. Mackin's:

    http://perso.wanadoo.fr/shand/jjm/index.html