Cypherpunks' Electronic Book 3

[bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com_1-510-484-6204]

Well, you've got an opportunity for a Learning Experience, then :-)
Assuming you've got access to a Unix machine you can run things on,
it's not hard to set up procmail or majordomo or the old, simple, reliable
netlib stuff that ran the netlib at research.att.com (and maybe still does?).
Since you're posting from MIZZOU1, you're at least behind a mail server
run by somebody else, so I'm not sure how much control you have.....

If you want to roll your own crude mail-reply system on Unix, it's
really not hard, using some simple shell programming and the
sed batch editor equivalent to "ed" and the : commands of vi -
when you receive a mail message, you stick it in a file,
then use sed or whatever to find the "From:" line so you know
who to send it back to, and lines that look like your command set
(e.g. "get foo"), stickthe appropriate stuff into a mail message
and send it back.

If you want to do all this on DOS, well, good luck :-)  Look at teh
tools you've got available for handling mail, and get yourself a 
copy off Eudora or Waffle if you don't have either of them.
Then you're on your own.

		BIll