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Subject: Re: RFC 2142
From: The entropy Technician <delchi @ dorsai . org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:08:11 -0400 (edt)
To: Bob Myers <bob @ intelenet . net>
Cc: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>, majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199707101625.JAA20288@ns.intelenet.net>


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On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Bob Myers wrote:

> On Jul 10, 10:32, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> } Subject: RFC 2142
> > 
> >       LIST-SPECIFIC (-REQUEST) MAILBOX NAMES ARE REQUIRED,
> >       INDEPENDENT OF THE AVAILABILITY OF GENERIC LIST SOFTWARE
> >       MAILBOX NAMES.
> > 
> > I guess that instead of requiring the users to know the single mailbox
> > name, they require them to know a priori the command syntax.  Oh, well.
> 
> 
> Or to put it another way, they have to know the general list mailbox
> syntax instead of a priori knowing which mailing list manager software
> package is being used for that particular list.  
> 
> What's the big deal?  For minimal support of this RFC, all you need is
> an alias pointing to the single mailbox name.  That would appear to 
> satisfy the requirement (though I haven't looked up the complete RFC).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bob Myers                              InteleNet Communications, Inc.
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