Many of us would be interested in ANY script (as long as the
caveats are also provided). If nothing else, we can learn
from the code (or borrow from it) to create our own scripts,
which in turn can be provided for someone/anyone else to make
improvements to.
Dan Liston
John Sechrest wrote:
>
> mjn <mjn@tc.umn.edu> writes:
>
> % > Hi. It occurs to me that the creation of a new list,
> % > including all the files and email aliases, would be the
> % > PERFECT subject for automation by script.
> % >
> % > Are any available that anyone knows of? I'm trying to learn
> % > Perl, so I guess that would be a good project to cut my
> % > teeth on, but I'd rather take existing scripts and modify.
>
> I have an old script that we use. But I am not sure anyone else
> would want it. We follow the model that the mail machine
> and the mail list machine are two different machines.
> And so when we create a list, we have to create it in two
> places.
>
> And so the script does that.
>
> This way we have a dedicated list machine which processes
> mail without impacting our regular mail delivery when people
> do whacky things with a mail list.
>
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