Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 15:48:07 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: List management: DIGEST TIME? Message-ID: <199504242148.PAA05858@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) "List management: DIGEST TIME?" (Apr 24, 3:21pm)
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> Has anyone considered that digesting the lists would both reduce > the mail load and reduce the inbox load for people? It would also > reduce the number of connections people would have to deal with > coming into their box (If they pay that way). On that note, it would be trivial to make a digested version of the mailing list available. Majordomo is already setup to do it, though the postmaster would need to set it up. I had one working on my box before I did the majordomo security upgrade on freefall. > CV: the Samba list > > Of course, a potential missing piece is the exploder you'd want to > use so that reply messages didn't reference digest subjects instead > of referencing the actual subject of the message in the digest being > responded to. Procmail can auto-explode email automatically, but it requires that folks install it or something other mail-exploder. > Also like the Samba list, this would not have to be mandatory -- you > could be on either a direct repeat or a digest repeat (I'm on the digest > repeat for the samba, but would want to stay on the regular lists for > most of the FreeBSD lists I'm on, except questions, where it would > be easier to batch-answer problems). I would recommend that it be a completely separate mailing list. Nate
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