David Barr <barr@pop.psu.edu> writes:
# In message <199404080641.XAA16437@mycroft.GreatCircle.COM>, Brent Chapman write
# s:
# >Forwarded without comment;
# >From: tedw@microsoft.com
# >[..]
# > backread <list> <#ofmsgs>
# >
# >and receive the last <#ofmsgs> messages sent to that mailing list.
#
# One thing I like about Majordomo is its simplicity of design and
# low learning curve. It does just enough work in order to get the
# job done well, without overloading the user (and the system) with lots
# of commands they will hardly ever use, or can be done better by existing
# methods.
#
# It seams to me that this "backread" command falls into this last
# category. Mail readers already have built up lots of neat ways
# to search mail messages, I don't think it's worthwhile to have
# Majordomo duplicate all of them. I think it's better for the
# user to just get the archive of the last month, and view it with their
# favorite file viewer/mail reader or whatever and do it that way.
I would agree with this. By the way, one of the new tools for use
with Majordomo (which John may have included with 1.90beta2; I haven't
looked yet) is an archive-creation program that automatically maintains
yearly, monthly, or daily archives (based on command line arguments),
and will also split existing simple archives into yearly, monthly, or
daily archives.
-Brent
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