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Subject: too bad resend isn't stand-alone anymore
From: Travis Hassloch x231 <travis @ EvTech . com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:44:55 -0500
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com

I still haven't figured out why resend's -A option won't work in 1.92...
I looked over the code and couldn't find the problem.
But I just read the FAQ and it says, "If you're using Majordomo 1.9x or
greater, do not try to use the now-deprecated "-A" option to resend. In fact
if you're using 1.9x or greater, you shouldn't be using ANY options to
resend except "-h" and "-l"."

\begin{soapbox}
It's too bad majordomo went to this byzantine labyrinth of
wrappers and cat/eval'ed files...  it's just more points of failure
and more points of maintenance, not to mention more stuff you have to
ask sysadmin to set up (assuming you aren't r00t on your mailing list
machine).  I may remind you that you _have_ to modify /etc/aliases in
order to add a mailing list; having to modify an external file is
therefore dead weight.

Please, go back to the KISS principle!
\end{soapbox}

(before anyone yells at me telling me to upgrade to the latest bleeding-edge
version, let me remind you I am _not_ a sysadmin on the mailing list
machines and they work up quite an inertia on things like this)

FYI: eval(`cat $cf`) is better expressed as do $cf ...
--
Travis Hassloch | P=NP if (P=0 or N=1)
``He's more of a security expert, or informational enthusiast like the many
others.  These daredevils straddle the barbwire fence between security and
hacking, in an attempt to absorb as much knowledge as they can.''


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