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Subject: Re: Can I avoid nexted subject prefixes on nested lists?
From: Larry Williamson <larry @ mitra . com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:19:22 -0400
To: dliston @ netscape . com
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Dan Liston's message of 27 August 2001 13:59:41 -0500
References: <15242.27171.354360.495662@mitra.com><3B8A989D.17430AD7@netscape.com>


Hmm. This is an interesting suggestion. I'll try this out. Thanks.

Dan Liston <dliston@netscape.com> wrote:
 > Rather than adding the testers@domain.tld to the zubscriber file 
 > for the coders list, why not change your alias for coders-outgoing
 > to :include:~majordomo/lists/testers, :include:~majordomo/lists/coders?
 > The order of the includes is not important.  As long as the message
 > is not being sent back through resend at another address, there should
 > only be the one subject prefix.  In this case, [coders].
 > 
 > Dan Liston
 > 
 > Larry Williamson wrote:
 > > 
 > > We have a couple of lists that have other lists listed in them.
 > > 
 > > A hypothetical example to illustrate my problem...
 > > 
 > > "testers" lists all the people in our testing group
 > > "coders" lists all our software writers
 > > 
 > > We have added "testers" to the list of people in the "coders" list.
 > > 
 > > Both "coders" and "testers" have $subject_prefix=[$LIST]
 > > 
 > > So, when someone sends email to "coders", the people on testers see
 > > subject lines similar to...
 > > 
 > >    Subject: [testers][coders] fixed another bug
 > > 
 > > The "testers" would rather not see both these prefixes in the Subject
 > > line, they want to see only the original list's prefix, ie. [coders].
 > > 
 > > But, of course, they do want their own prefix when testers is the list
 > > that was sent to.
 > > 
 > > Does anyone know if I can make this work without having to dig in an
 > > modify the majordomo software's guts?
 > > 
 > > I have probably half a dozen such lists.
 > > 
 > > We are running version 1.94.



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