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From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net>
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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