On 7 Sep 2000 at 10:29, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote about "Re: setting umask...":
> BR> Well, I should be able to set them group writeable, if I want. And I am
> BR> certainly interested in that.
>
> Are you sure you do? Altering the length of the archive by even one byte
> renders the indices incorrect, meaning that any archive retrieval from
> within Majordomo will be screwed up. You cannot edit the archives
> yourself. (We could write something to rebuild the indices once you've
> messed with an archive, but I don't think this exists yet and there are
> still issues that it can't solve.)
Ahhh...this is another story.
I think it is desirable to allow people to edit the actual messages. There
are some people who wants to change history!
> Obviously this needs to be addressed, probably by implementing code to
> delete an archived message and to replace one message with another.
Yes.
I might also want to link my ftp site to the archives, and it might become
a common-storage area for the whole list.
Mj2 doesn't need to do anything to whatever else is uploaded...but is it
able to ignore the other stuff?
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Brock Rozen brozen@torah.org
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