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Subject: Re: users questions
From: jason carr <mouse @ cyberline . net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:49:41 +0000 (GMT)
To: Amy Shapiro <afs16 @ columbia . edu>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <33CE98E6.2625@columbia.edu>

> 1.  Can majordomo alphabetize the members on the mailing list? 
> Currently, when a new person subscribes, the address gets added to the
> end, I want it to be put in the list alphabetically.

How critical is this that it be immediate?  

You could run a daily or hourly or whatever cronjob:

0 0 * * * sort -o filename filename

I think that does it every midnight, but you'd wanna "man cron" to make sure.

> 3.  If a person is already on the list, but only their email address
> appears, is there a way to enter their names without unsubscribing them
> and re-subscribing them with their names in the command line?

Edit the listfile and stuff the realnames in there, following the example of an
address that has a realname on it.

> 4.  Is there someway to subscribe people and suspend the
> welcome-message?  I don't want people to get a welcome message when I
> subscribe them.

Edit the listfile and stuff the new addresses (and names! :) in there.

jc
mouse@mousetrap.net
http://www.mousetrap.net/~mouse 

--
"Even God cannot change the past."  Agathon, Nicomachean Ethics,
Aristotle.



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