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Subject: RE: Changing a list name and aliases
From: Mitchell Leben <mitch @ leben . com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:24:57 -0500 (CDT)
To: Peter Bowyer <pbowyer @ verity . com>
Cc: "'majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com'" <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: <519947FD04D8CF11900F0800001798152373C2@picard.verity.com>

Thanks to everyone who commented on this situation.

My revised plan is to use 'exit 75' in majordomo.cf while making the
changes (instead of killing sendmail), and to keep the current (old) 
aliases for a while, pointing to the 'new' list. 

On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Peter Bowyer wrote:

> You should probably retain the 'epson800' aliases, and point them to the
> new versions. It *will* take some time for all your subscribers to get
> the message, however many times you tell them.
> 
> > 1. Kill sendmail
> > 2. Edit the alias file, change each instance of epson800 to
> > epsoninkjet
> > 3. Change the /path/to/majordomo/listname to the new list name.
> > 4. Change info and config names
> > 5. Edit config, change epson800 to epsoninkjet
> > 6. Edit info to reflect new information
> > 7. Change the archive path and file names
> > 8. newaliases
> > 9. Restart sendmail and test.

-Mitch
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mitch@leben.com		    for Epson Stylus Color 800 printers. Send	
http://www.leben.com/~mitch	'subscribe epson800' to majordomo@leben.com
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