Date: Thu, 8 Nov 84 09:46:03 est
From:: Walter Hamscher
To: *mac@mc
Subject: Revolting Seminar Friday at Noon

Friday,  Nov 9      12:00 noon      8th floor playroom    (Refreshments served)

               CCQF: The Carbon Copy Query Facility

                    for the Unix Mail Program

                       Walter C. Hamscher


I will present a critical analysis of a tool I call CCQF (Carbon
Copy Query Facility) which I developed yesterday in the "Bull
Shipping Zone" of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.  CCQF was originally designed to fill a very specific
purpose in "mail" (the Unix Mail program), but appears to be of much
more general utility as evidenced by the recent spate of "replies"
generated by BABYL or MM and CC'd to distribution lists.  I am currently
investigating its status as a ``next generation'' general purpose
intelligent CC response mechanism.

A sample interactions with CCQF are shown below (user input
in uppercase, salient features highlighted with >>>):
        
        % mail
          "/ht/walter/mbox": 1 messages 1 new
        & HEADER
          1  marty@oz    12:35  6 Nov 84    "Graduate Student Lunch"
        & REPLY 1
>>>     sender only? N
>>>     To: marty@oz
>>>     Cc: *mac@mc
        Subject: Re: Graduate Student Lunch
        ^C Interrupt (one more to kill letter)
        ^C Message aborted
        & REPLY 1
>>>     sender only? Y
>>>     To: marty@oz
        Subject: Re: Graduate Student Lunch

        MARTY, THANKS FOR DOING GSL THIS WEEK
        ^D
        Message sent
        & EXIT
        %

CCQF might be described as a cross between the "@" prompt, Zmail,
Prolog, and Mycin, but that would really be stretching things a bit.