HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US  (Dazed N. Confused)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: User-Only type documentation
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 13:53:36 PST
Organization: Vector Zero

dwrage@ddt-archives.athens.oh.us (David William Wrage) writes:

> I'm thinking of editing the USER.DOC file, it's just htat I'm too d*mn lazy t
> really want to do it.  any ideas?

     Uhm.  Why do users need to know every command, even the restricted
ones?  Why not have a little more simplicity..

     NEW   - read new messages
     RN    - like NEW, but one-key only
     READ  - Read messages on current newsgroup
     POST  - Post message on current newsgroup
     MAIL  - read your mail
     FILES - download section
     LIST  - Recent callers
     STAT  - Your Status (change config, etc)


     What else do users do, commonly?  Not much else..  I don't see
much of a reason to document commands more than the above, either.
Users aren't stupid.  Unless they are.  And then what good are they?

--Jon

   jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US                     Life is like a *.
From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: .QWK mail reader for Waffle
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 19:34:58 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.

abolins@visavis.cam.org (August Abolins) writes:

> nrc@cbnews.cb.att.com (N. Richard Caldwell) writes:
> 
> >           ... Any completely new format that has no reader support and
> > no doors to produce the packets has two strikes against it from the
> > outset.
> 
> Excellent point.

Well, even QWK had no reader support and no external programs to produce
the packets at one time. And as it stands, what is there... one external
program which pries Usenet news and mail into QWK format packets?


--
Kevin Houle     kjhoule@iowegia.uucp
From: kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: .QWK mail reader for Waffle
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:55:41 CST
Distribution: world
Organization: Iowegia Public Access Usenet/UUCP, Clive IA USA.

jhood@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (and the eyes in his head see the World spinning roun writes:

<As a side note, Waffle can't seem to handle parsing such a long address
line for replying via mail. I had to hand-address a reply.>

> Aye, that last sentence is the catch.  I don't think I'd find your
> reader useful in its current state.  Posting and mailing conveniently
> is an important part of an off-line reader.  Intuition tells me that
> mail and posting is the more difficult chunk of the problem-- but
> then, you're writing the code; I wish you well :)

Just because I haven't addressed mail and posting doesn't mean I won't :)
It'll just take some time to impliment. I'm working on getting HellDiver
format packets as output right now.

> 
> While I'm at it--can I urge you to make your host-end code usable on
> Unix systems?  I could lend a hand...

Lend away.. cross-platform support would be cool.

--
Kevin Houle     kjhoule@iowegia.uucp
From: system@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca (Gordon Soukoreff)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Anyone running Waffle as a BBS door?
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 17:50:21 PST
Organization: TradeNET International Trade Corp.

jre@earldom.UUCP (Jim Earl) writes:

> I'm looking for someone who is running Waffle as a BBS door/external program
> under MSDOS 5.0.  I've got some questions.  Please reply via mail.  Thanks.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> (916) 729-6825          Jim Earl - KB6KCP          (916) 929-0300 x233
>     (home)       earldom!jre@csusac.ecs.csus.edu          (work)
>                         csusac!earldom!jre


I'm doing that.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
gordon@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca                       Gordon Soukoreff
Genelle, British Columbia                         CANADA
From: eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: uucico speed, bad headers
Date: 27 Dec 92 22:38:49 GMT
Reply-To: eoin@xocolatl.com
Organization: Amethyst Systems, Fremont, CA

Arthur@cswamp.apana.org.au (Arthur Marsh) writes:

-> On Sat 19 Dec at 10:48 Wayne McDougall wrote:
-> 
-> > jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke) writes:
-> > 
-> > > 3. Make sure you have uu.fossil set up in static
-> > 
->  WM> What is this? I can't find a "uu.fossil" in my documentation.

Because there isn't one.  The item is "uu.driver"

Arthur goes on to post an entire section of network.doc.
Follows is the only applicable part of it.


-> TUNABLE PARAMETERS IN THE STATIC FILE
-> 
->         uu.driver       Which COMM driver uucico will use. Valid
->                         choices are "native" and "fossil". This
->                         line must come AFTER any "driver" statement
->                         in the static file.
-> 
->                         UUCICO will also recognize a "driver"
->                         statement if present; the uu.driver is
->                         intended to override this if necessary.
-> 
->                         Refer to DOS.DOC for more information.

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 GEnie: J.Snyder18  |  *             and             <  D A R W I N  >< 
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From: tichauer@valpso.hanse.de (Manfredo Tichauer)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: V-MailServer 1.22
Date: 31 Dec 92 17:25:57 GMT
Organization: "The Private Site of Manfredo Tichauer"


A couple of days ago a friend installed V-MailServer ver.1.22 in my PC,
because I wanted to make two mailing-lists (one in German and the other
one in Spanish). At the moment I have 15 email adresses for each list
and now I have a problem with the site from where I poll. Since the 
administrator uses UNIX (Interactive), he is used that if somebody has
a mailing list, he can send ONE mail for MANY users, for example 10 or
more users at once:I have to send ONE MAIL for EACH member of each mail-
list. Is there a way to do it like in UNIX? I understood that in UNIX it
is possible to use up to 512 columns in a row, e.g: 

user1@aaa.AAA,user2@bbb.BBB,user3@ccc.CCC,user4@ddd.DDD, etc.

up to 512 characters.

What also is a little annoying is that if somebody sends any command to
my mail-server (e.g. subscribe ABCD-L), everyone on the mailing list
receives it also. Is there also a way to eliminate this? 

It would be nice that there is a way to spare band width with mail-lists
and I hope that somebody has a solution for it. I wish all of you a Happy
New Year (it will start here in another 5 hours)

Manfredo

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Xref: sparky comp.bbs.waffle:5522 comp.os.os2.misc:40352
From: dalew@twiki.PDX.COM (Dale Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to increase speed of communications in OS/2 2.0
Keywords: os2 waffle 165
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 12:51:22 PST
Organization: Wafflemania Unlimited - Portland, OR USA

jkilday@nlbbs.UUCP (Jack Kilday) writes:

> SIO010.ZIP is on my system and available via e-mail.  This is the 
> 12/10 release by Ray Gwinn and is about 20K in size.

  This version does work fine, but v0.15 works a bit better.

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          40 Mhz AMD 80386DX, 16 Meg RAM, 525 Meg total SCSI disk storage
          Running in an OS/2 2.0 DOS session!
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
Subject: Re: Caller Summary Program
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:46:52 GMT

Jonathan Herr <herrj%valnet@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:

>You probably aren't aware of the problems because there are sites
>that can't reach you because their host doesn't recognize you.  It's

It's hard NOT to have an Internet site recognized. :)  Especially
when it's cross-filed:

; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> halcyon.com any 
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 5, Auth: 4, Addit: 4
;; QUESTIONS: 
;;	halcyon.com, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
halcyon.com.	37783	NS	NWNEXUS.WA.COM.
halcyon.com.	37783	NS	HANNA.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU.
halcyon.com.	37783	NS	BOLERO.RAHUL.NET.
halcyon.com.	37783	NS	HUSTLE.RAHUL.NET.
halcyon.com.	71566	A	192.135.191.2

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
HALCYON.COM.	37783	NS	NWNEXUS.WA.COM.
HALCYON.COM.	37783	NS	HANNA.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU.
HALCYON.COM.	37783	NS	BOLERO.RAHUL.NET.
HALCYON.COM.	37783	NS	HUSTLE.RAHUL.NET.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
NWNEXUS.WA.COM.	79517	A	192.135.191.1
HANNA.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU.	163910	A	128.95.120.1
BOLERO.RAHUL.NET.	131772	A	192.160.13.1
HUSTLE.RAHUL.NET.	131772	A	192.160.13.2
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                 "A World of Information at your Fingertips"
                 P.O. Box 555, Grapeview, WA 98546-0555, USA
                    ralphs@halcyon.com,  +1 206 955 1050
From: owen@lakes.trenton.sc.us (UN Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.bbs.mail
Subject: Re: post comp.bbs.waffle
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 22:27:38 EST
Reply-To: owen@lakes.trenton.sc.us (UN Owen)
Organization: Lakes Public Access

dwrage@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (David William Wrage) writes:

> > Is anyone out there running WWIVEDIT under Waffle?  If so, can you 

Yes, for quite some time.

> Better yet, how about some kind soul posting that _editor file or a 
> sample batch file that shows us how to do that.  I'm sure that more

Ok

/waffle/extern/_editors (wrapped for clairity)

vde /access=9 /slash /screen /command="appsig c:\user\%A c:\vde\vde %i"
vi /access=2 /slash /screen /command="bbstevie ! c:\user\%A %i"
ws /access=1 /slash /screen /command="appsig c:\user\%A fsed.exe -x
   +c:\waffle\extern\vt100.cfg %i"
fse /access=1 /shell /slash /screen /dir="\waffle\wwivedit"
   /command="wwivfse %A %i"
fsa /access=9 /local /shell /slash /screen /dir="\waffle\fse"
   /command="wwivedit %i"

/waffle/wwivedit/wwivfse.bat

@echo off
wwivedit %2 72 24 250 /T /A
if not exist %2 goto done
sed -e s///g %2 > \user\%1\edit.tmp
copy \user\%1\edit.tmp %2
:done

The sed line is a dirty fix to get rid of the <ctrl> a's wwivedit 
appended to wrapped lines.  I have the latest wwivedit beta 
installed, but haven't run it remotely so I don't know if the sed 
line is still needed.  The WWIV specific stuff like destination do 
not work, but the editor otherwise is great.

--
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   (Michael Hendrick)    |   Just another blonde in black and white
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: rmail not accepting % hacks
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 22:50:43 +1300
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)

For some reason rmail is doing nasty things to addresses with % hacks in
them.

As an example, mail addressed to foo%bar.uucp@buzz is being sent to
foo.uucp@buzz

Anyone know how to deal with this problem?


--
Alan Brown. (SysAdmin)
dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz                      Palmerston North
Dawghaus BBS -> +64 (6) 357-9245                New Zealand
             "A wet and windy place in the South Pacific"


Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
Subject: Re: Update on Helldiver
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:09:44 GMT

carlos@carlos writes:

>In <1992Dec25.164213.17002@nwnexus.WA.COM> ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:

>>Sounding better all the time.  Thanks for your contribution to the
>>Waffle community (even if it does perpetuate the Windows myth :) ).

>..Windows myth? Geez is it the supposedly-pseudo-multitasking-time-slicing
>-memoryhogging-timeandHDspacewasting-applicationOSshell I use and despise
>almost every night?

Since I had been using a gazillion command-line tricks and apps, I got a
copy of DESQview.  If I had had turned down the other aisle at the store,
I probably would have purchased Windows.  In any event, I use DV and poke
fun at Windows.  BUT!!!!  Now I have (drum roll, please)...  LINUX, a
freely-distributable Unix clone.  Runs cnews, smail, x-windows, etc.,
*AND* Waffle.  Eight virtual consoles, etc.

Now, with a couple of WD8003 network cards... :)
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                 "A World of Information at your Fingertips"
                 P.O. Box 555, Grapeview, WA 98546-0555, USA
                    ralphs@halcyon.com,  +1 206 955 1050
From: jnutt@hndymn.fidonet.org (jim nutt)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: User-Only type documentation
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 21:55:11 MST
Organization: 'the computer handyman' - phoenix, az, usa

dwrage@ddt-archives.athens.oh.us (David William Wrage) writes:

> I'm thinking of editing the USER.DOC file, it's just htat I'm too d*mn lazy t
> really want to do it.  any ideas?

i have a trimmed down version of the user.doc file. if there is
sufficient interest, i can post it here.. it's about 38k. it
could probably be trimmed further, but my ambition allows no
more..<grin>


----
jnutt@hndymn.fidonet.org (jim nutt)
'the computer handyman' - 602/548-9706
From: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Perl Scripts... to generate STATS
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 11:33:18 EST
Reply-To: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Organization: Deep In The Heart Of The South!


  Someone mentioned that they had a set of perl scripts to process the waffle
  info files in ADMIN and generate some nice looking reports of stats.

  Can I get that someone to email me these scripts...

  bill

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From: dwrage@ddt-archives.athens.oh.us (David William Wrage)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: WWIVedit problems solved, but one more question now
Date: 26 Dec 92 22:06:05 GMT
Organization: * DDT Archives BBS *


Thanks to all those wonderful people (both of them) who helped me out with the
WWIVedit setup.  Although your solutions worked, I ended working out a third
solution which allows me to use the 'local' setup when a user is locally logged
in, and a 'remote' setup when.....shall we say...  remotely logged in.

If anybody would like a copy of my solution, feel free to E-Mail me directly.
I will be more than glad to send you a copy of my solution to the problem and
it works very well...

Now for a curiosity question:  Is there any way to convey the title & the
recipient of a message (be it a newsgroup or a specific user) to a file or a %
variable (that isn't in the docs?)  I'm just looking for a way to make WWIVedit
more user friendly by being able to display under Title, the actual title of
the message and under Dest, the actual destination.  Under Dest for posting I
am able to bring up the newsgroup name, but I would really like to be able to
under mail put up the recipients name instead of the last newsgroup joined.
Putting the title up would also help remind users what they started writing
about before they side-tracked.

Thankx again for any help, please E-mail me your solution or replies.  I will
post a note again if  or when a solution is found.  Thanx

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 David William Wrage              Usenet....dwrage@ddt-archives.athens.oh.us
 SysOp of DDT Archives BBS
 614/594-6588 at 2400 Baud        WWIVlink....1@16471     WWIVnet.....1@6471
From: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Waffle in Charlotte
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 21:48:27 EST
Reply-To: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Organization: Deep In The Heart Of The South!

Are there any sites running waffle in the Charlotte area? Has there ever 
been a list compiled of the waffle sites?

bill

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From: Jonathan Herr <herrj%valnet@moose.cs.indiana.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Caller Summary Program
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 23:23:21 EST
Organization: WVCF, Vincennes, IN, USA

Ralph Sims <ralphs@remote.halcyon.com> writes:

<> Jonathan Herr <herrj%n@moose.cs.indiana.edu> writes:
<> 
<> > # I'd recommend that you just put it on halcyon for ftp and it'll be
<> > # available for uuencoded mail-serving within a day or two...that way
<> 
<> > Agreed, but since a lot of people have trouble getting mail from
<> > there, I have reservations about the availability.
<> 
<> I am not aware of any problems with our mail handling on halcyon.
<> There have been problems with inadequately-worded requests.  Halcyon
<> is currently processing 2,000 pieces of mail daily.


Sorry, Ralph.  It didn't come out the way that I was thinking it.
You probably aren't aware of the problems because there are sites
that can't reach you because their host doesn't recognize you.  It's
not your or the requestor's fault all the time.  When it gets fixed,
it's fixed!  Nothin to yell at you about because it's not your fault.
I was experiencing this with my site for a while.  Some items would
make it to you (I guess.  They didn't bounce back.) and some
wouldn't.  It wasn't your fault.  It wasn't mine (I don't think).  It
turned out that when my feed site changed names, they forgot to
register their uucp map.  In the process of changing (actually, the
machine changed too), something got lost and mail to anywhere but IU
or any of it's direct neighbors (UUCP) would bounce.  I have
successfully received a few files since things were fixed (I think).
The entire time this was happening (about 3 months), I was thinking
to myself, "How many other sites go through this and never get out of
it?"


Jonathan R Herr                             I can't quit you, babe.
herrj@valnet.uucp                           I guess I'll have to put you down
WVCF System Administrator                   For a little while ....
From: dfox@fennec.com (Scott Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Offline Readers / Hell-Diver in particular
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 04:31:54 CST
Reply-To: dfox@fennec.com
Organization: Fennec Information Systems / Orbital Data Haven II

mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley) writes:

> Geez...now I have 2 reasons to reload Windoze; Hell-Diver and
> Solitare.  Is a DOS only version of HD in the cards (pun
> intended)?
> 
No, unfortunately, there is no DOS version of HellDiver...however
I am not a Windows fan either...but HellDiver makes it all worth
while. Believe me! I really like it, and you will too. 
You can pick up HellDiver via Anon FTP...halcyon.com

---------------------| -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |----------------------------
Scott Davis          |   will work for food    | dfox@fennec.com
Domain Administrator |   ...and $125,000       | Fennec Information Systems
(512) 451-9769       |        a year!          | Austin, Texas USA
---------------------| -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |----------------------------
From: Ralph Sims <ralphs@remote.halcyon.com>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Modem Mavens Merit Manifest
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 16:44:27 PST
Organization: Halcyon's Remote

tcbowden@clovis.felton.ca.us (Timothy Bowden) writes:

> And so I thought I would ask those who pass this way, presuming long
> experience testing modems under conditions identical to mine, what your
> recommendations are as to modem makes.  I would like a living
> testamonial from anyone that has any Telebit running Waffle for years
> with no problems and high cps.  That would be encouraging.

I highly recommend the Telebit modems.  I have nothing but praise for
them.  Minutes passed as I deliberated the purchase of a Worldblazer,
and after a false start with shipping, finally took possession of it,
while it took possession of me.

Forutnately, I have been using Telebits since their arrival on the modem
scene, and configurations have never been a problem.  Currently, I am
seeing up to 1900cps with the UUCICO that comes with Waffle 1.65 into
another WB, running on a DEC Unix box.  Historically, it waffles between
800cps and 1100cps on 9600 v.32bis.  PEP UUCP spoofing yields around
1300cps, average.  Transfers of ASCII files with v.32bis and PEP are
around 3400cps top, with 2700cps an average.  Zmodem transfers are around
1620cps, on the average.  These are with files in excess of 175K.

Generally, a well-built modem that has exceeded my expectations.  Plans
for our Internet site include a couple of dozen rackmount T3000's (we
don't need the UUCP feature on halcyon).

If you'd like to borrow and old TB+ whilst yours is being repaired,
feel free to shout.
From: abolins@visavis.cam.org (August Abolins)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Waffle and Share.exe question?
Date: 25 Dec 92 16:25:17 GMT
Organization: Vis-a-Vis Communications [Ontario+Quebec]

otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:

> [Re the undocumented /F flag of COMMAND.COM]
> 
> > Please note that the above ONLY works for primary shells. That is, if you
> > run COMMAND.COM to shell to DOS say from Waffle...this doesn't work.
> 
> Um, when I just shelled out to DOS from this here Waffle, and typed
> 	COMMAND /F
> the shell that was spawned did have this feature enabled.  Thus, if you
> edit your /waffle/extern/_system to have the lines
> --
> shell   /command="C:\COMMAND /F"
> command /command="C:\COMMAND /F /C %i"
> --
> it works as expected.  I've done this.

Excellent tip/discovery. Thanks.

> /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * */

Hmmmm. "Computers Rule 4F4B" => "Computers Rule for ever be?"



- /|ugust /|bolins -------Happy 1993!-------[ abolins@visavis.cam.org ]---
From: ferret@works.uucp (Dave Ferret)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: TO BRAD BROWN!
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:20:28 EST
Organization: The Works BBS - Informational Archives - Est. 1985

I'm not sure if you exist...

does anyone have an updated copy of 'filesort' by Brad Brown? I found it 
very helpful, but it has 2 or three obnoxious quirks in it, that I would 
like to change. 


Half of my text files come up as 'illegal character .. aborting' (Or 
whatever its trendy message is) Yet, I can't figure out why. 


                -- Dave

Dave Ferret (Sysop)                         Inquires to: merk!works!system
The Works BBS - [617] 861/8976                 Informational Archives
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,comp.mail.uucp
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:48:40 GMT

In article <BzMIIu.Lnp@cs.psu.edu> fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
>|The problem with smarthost: hishost!bighost is that mail for myneighbor
>|(ie: myhost!hishost!myneighbor!user) goes up to bighost.

>Only if you don't have your PATHS file set up properly.

But it will still force mail to direct neighbors of hishost to go to
bighost and back unless you also maintain path entries for those machines.
If the mailer on hishost is smart enough to resolve what it can and
pass the rest on to bighost then you are better off using hishost as
your smarthost instead of hishost!bighost.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us