email responder
Proposal for an email responder framework in Frontier
There was a proposal for this in Conversant at one time, but it never got past the proof-of-concept stage. SMTP is the easiest RPC there is. The ideas in here are gems.
I'm not sure I care for the design proposed (I'd go for something less command-line-based and more pattern/rule-based), but the high-level idea is good.
Written on February 21, 2001