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Subject: Re: tracking subscriptions by date
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 08:14:22 -0600 (CST)
To: amberg @ rockisland . com (Joan Amberg)
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199702061801.KAA04669@cronus.rockisland.com> from "Joan Amberg" at Feb 6, 97 10:22:05 am
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Joan Amberg writes: ]
> 
> I have a list owner who is using his list for those who subscribe (and pay!)
> for his online newsletter.  He was wondering if there was any plans for an
> "expiration date" option, an add-on package, or if someone had already
> written some code to track those who subscribed by date so he could
> unsubscribe them at a given time (usually 52 weeks later).

Probably the easiest way to handle this is through a separate database
of subscribers and expiration dates and a set of scripts/programs that
run weekly to unsubscribe any expired subscriptions from Mj via mail. I
suppose the expiration date could even be embedded in the address
comment (and strip set to 'no' in the list config):

    address (this is the address comment field)

Should be pretty simple in Perl, but no, I don't know of any existing
s/w to do this automatically.

-- 
 Dave Wolfe



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