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Subject: Re: RESEND/DIGEST - Am I Clueless, Or Are We Silly?
From: Brent Chapman <brent @ mycroft . GreatCircle . COM>
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 23:46:33 -0700
To: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ unpc . queernet . org>
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 31 May 1994 21:59:29 -0700

"Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk@unpc.queernet.org> writes:

# The traditional wisdom for maintaining a list as a digest uses aliases of
# the form:
# 
# 	foo: foo-resend, foo-digestify
# 	foo-resend: "|/usr/local/bin/majordomo/wrapper resend..."
# 	foo-digestify: "|/usr/local/bin/majordomo/wrapper digest..."
# 
# But doesn't this miss the ability to do administrivia checks, etc., on the
# copies posted to the digest?  Might it not make more sense instead to put
# "foo-digestify" in the alias that's resend's target?

Yes.  You must have some list ("foo-outgoing", maybe) that's the
target for "resend", and that actually includes the list file, right?
So add "foo-digestify" there.  I.e.:

	foo-outgoing: :include:/path/to/lists/foo, foo-digestify

Same concerns and solution apply to archiving, by the way.


-Brent
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