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Subject: Re: Wish. . .
From: Bill Houle <Bill . Houle @ SanDiegoCA . NCR . COM>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 12:06:07 -0800
To: "Mordechai T. Abzug" <morty @ frakir . gsfc . nasa . gov>
Cc: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199802021829.NAA10866@frakir.gsfc.nasa.gov>
References: <199802010052.QAA14605@honor.greatcircle.com>

At 01:29 PM 2/2/98 -0500, Mordechai T. Abzug wrote:
>
>> We have 3 lists auto-generated. Given that the database they
>> come from is our responsibility, we (sysadmin types) are 
>> likewise the owners of the lists. Why aren't the owners of
>> your lists ones who know enough not to try and zubscribe 
>> people conventionally?
>
>Because we actually want to allow people to zubscribe and unzubscribe
>themselves conventionally.  Think of it as a two-tier system -- the
>database-generated list is the default, but then people *not* in the
>database should be able to zubscribe permanently, and people who are in the
>database should be able to unzubscribe permanently.

Then your process that rcp's the database-dump files over to the Majordomo
host should do a diff on the to-be-replaced files, propagating additions
and removals back to the database as necessary. I think you've gone beyond
the bounds of Majordomo control, at least for the current version.


--bill



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