At 02:02 PM 9/7/00, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>If you decide to fire up vi and manually edit stuff then you
>can't expect the system to figure out what you did without giving it any
>information.
Correct! I want to tell it to go figure things out again, and update
all the places that need to have pointers into the archives. I certainly
do NOT want to spend my life getting and putting one message at a time
via email so I can edit out the copyright violations in VI.
>But still, anyone who expects to just be
>able to poke with things is expecting too much.
Works with other server software, no reason it can't work here.
For example, due to circumstances too complicated to bother with here,
I have the archives for one of my lists in two places. I'd really like
to merge them. They're both Mj2 archives, they just happen to be in two
different directories. With a "re-index" command, I use "cat" and I'm
done. Do you envision me putting one message at a time into the archive
using as-yet unwritten commands? For about 500 messages?
If email commands are required to manipulate the archives, can we at
least have a bulk check-in that takes many messages in standard Unix
mailbox format and adds them all to the end of the archive? And another
that sends everything in the archive the same way? Oh, and one to
delete everything in the archive. Then I'll have the ability to
re-index with only three email commands.
SRE
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