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Subject: Digests
From: Jeff Blaine <Jeff . Blaine @ ciesin . org>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 00:51:01 -0400
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com


[ Yes, I know digests are new with 1.90 and there's no _set_ way to be
  doing things.  I just want to hear what's working for people ]

I've been looking over some of the digest stuff for the last hour or so,
and I'm finding myself coming very short on the comprehension end of
things.

First a simple question:
Can Majordomo 1.90 provide one digest per day as its own list (i.e. I
don't want list foo AND foo-digest, I just want foo-digest to be
available).  Sample sendmail aliases that do this are more than welcome.
Ideally what I'm wanting is a list ``foo'' that is archived and sends
out one digested message per day to all of the members of the list IF
there is anything to send out.

Other questions:
The docs are rather lacking on this topic -- Where do the digests go?
What happens when?  How do they go out once per day when Majordomo isn't
a daemon keeping track of what time it is?  Am I supposed to use cron?
What exactly _should_ I be doing from cron if that's what I am supposed
to use (what command)?

I'm really trying to avoid some huge web of cron scripts + homebrew
scripts + majordomo to maintain this stuff -- that's why I left listproc
6.0c in the first place.  Ease of maintenance is key.

As always, thanks for your time.

-------
Jeff Blaine
CIESIN Operations


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