I like this idea enough that I am going to implement it here. Because of
the way we archive individual messages, it won't be very difficult, but I
know there are at least a couple other ways to archive and I'm not quite up
to providing a general solution.
I have messages archiving numerically -- i.e., when one goes to the list
it is copied into the archive dir as number 1725 or whatever number it is
up to. When a user issues whatever command we use for this (and I don't
want to use POSTPONE for the sake of less confusion) I will transfer the
name to a different file, say listname.postpone, along with the current
number. When the user issues RESUME, it will be a simple matter to
package up all the posts that have gone out since then and mail them
off. Of course, I will check the total file size and ask the user
whether he wants to receive it.
Thoughts on this? A better way, perhaps?
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On Fri, 1 Jul 1994, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> And I say :
> I think a really customer-oriented, user-friendly thing would be something like
> what the (gasp, what a role model!) USPS does where you can stop deliveries
> for a period, then get all that was missed.
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