The resources are still being taken somplace. Using your model, the USPS
does storage of your mail while on vacation, then has the added work of
doing the mass delivery when you return, OR your own mailbox does the
storage for you. I do not see the advantage of a "NOMAIL" or "POSTPONE"
options, it just moves the burden and resposibility.
Now if what you want is something that drops you from the list for
some amount of time while you are on vacation, then unsubscribe and subscribe
will do just that. It can even be done on you own local end via an "at"
job if unix, or similar function from other machines.
For a large mailing list, how much would you be willing to store, for
how long per individual to support the other options? I can see how you
could do it by making a "news" style spooling system to save article
pointers and send to each address from the "togo" list, but it could be
really easy to burn more resources on the lists home machine than it has
to do such a thing. I have several busy lists with 10+ to 2500++
people on them. I would not want the nightmare of dealing with
individual remailers and holding articles per user.
Doing archives for the lists, then allowing people to pick up the archives
for the time periods they were gone takes care of getting back messages.
This is possible via majordomo with the "get" and "index" command.
--gene
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