At 03:43 PM 2/28/95 -0500, Michael Corcoran wrote:
>INTRO:
>I am looking for software to help manage the mailing lists for our
>college at Wright State University. I cannot seem to find documentation
>that tells me if MajorDomo can do what we need. I have read the FAQ,
>I read the README, and several other doc files in the majordomo-1.93
>distribution--can you help?
>
[...]
>
>THE PROBLEM:
>>From what I have read about majordomo, it cannot do what I want.
>Can someone verify this: The problem as I see it is, since I build the
>mailing lists every night via a cron job (because we create new accounts
>each day, and people leave regularly) if I subscribe all these
>people each night, then the users that don't want to be on the list
>would have to unsubscribe each day. What I want to do is
>
> if (! unsubscribed) && (!already subscribed)
> subscribe username
>
>Can this sort of thing be done with majordomo?
>
Your cron job is already doing most of the external work. There are many
ways that your cron job can interact with majordomo to know who is
unsubscribing from lists. Sounds like a good opportunity for you to learn
Perl. Excuse me for presuming that you don't already know perl, it's just
that if you did, you never would have written those cron jobs in C. :-).
No offense intended! Actually, before I learned perl I was pretty much too
lazy to write cron jobs at all. :-)
Regards,
Doug Plate Sr.
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Doug Plate Sr. <plate@dicomed.com>
Systems Engineer, Dicomed Inc. Burnsville, MN
Network Adminstrator Digital Photo Retouch Products
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