Re: It's back

[Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>]

I've uploaded another snapshot to
<URL:ftp://ftp.hpc.uh.edu/pub/majordomo/Majordomo-0.0199801111.tar.gz>.
For this you will also need MIME-tools 4.110 from
<URL:http://www.zeegee.com/code/>.  Eryq added even more useful things
which I will be putting to good use.

The main things in this snapshot are fronters and footers.  Majordomo now
tacks them on as you expect.  Also of note, I put back in all of the
autoloading code so it runs much faster now.  But wait, there's more...

You can have multiple fronters set in message_fronter just by separating
them with blank lines.  The fronter to use is chosen at random.  You can
also set the message_fronter_frequency variable to an integer, which gives
the percentage of messages to which a fronter will be added.  The same goes
for footers.  The fronter and footer (hence called fter) rotation could be
used for advertising or for alternating removal instructions and mention of
the list's web page or something.  I added the frequency stuff because I
think fters are valuable but intrusive and so it would be nice to only
include them every so often.  (All of these goodies came at very little
cost compared to getting the basics to work.)

MIME stuff is preserved; fters are added as attachments to multipart
messages and not at all to single part messages not of type text/plain, so
things don't get messed up or hidden in the preamble or epilogue.

I also updated the documentation to mention the new stuff and refer to the
more fleshed-out state of the project.

Feedback?  I know several people downloaded the last snapshot; what'd you
think?

 - J<