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Subject: Re: Is 'wh*ch' useful?
From: bill @ ecology . bio . dfo . ca (Bill Silvert)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 17:27:12 -0300 (ADT)
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Brock Rozen <brozen@torah.org> wrote:
>	c) Limit 'which' to subscribers -- it's in there, but it's tricky.
>What if somebody is using a variation, then how will the check work?
>Really, it shouldn't if they're listed as something other than what
>they're subscribed as.
>
>	d) Limit searches to part of the user's own address -- in other
>words, I could only search for 'brozen' or 'torah.org' and nothing else.

The most common use of which on my lists is for a user whose address has
changed and needs to know which lists to unsubscribe/resubscribe. This
is such a common requirement that I would abandon which with great
reluctance.

-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Section, Bedford Institute of Oceanography,
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2, Tel. (902)426-1577

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