Date: 11 Jun 1996 03:46:05 -0500 From: "Richard Wackerbarth" <rkw@dataplex.net> To: "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Multiple Mailing lists Message-ID: <n1377657717.38084@Richard Wackerbarth>
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Jonathan Bresler writes: >> There are 8 lists. > in this example. there are about 51 FreeBSD mailing lists. If you could read, you would notice that I acknowledged that there were other lists. However, many of them are not a problem. I doubt there there is much cross posting to ctm-src-2_1 and something else :-) If we handle the "most common offenses" we will have solved 99% of the problem. I suspect that most people could live with the rest. > stable, current, hackers, questions...thats 16 already. ugh > i aint real excited about setting up 32 lists (5 done already) Only if you offer all the combinations. Actually, I don't see a real problem having even 128 lists if we automate the signup process so that it is transparent. The individual lists are just (the equivalent of) alias records used for distribution. A fairly simple Perl (or other language) script can compute the code number of the resulting list that is appropriate for individual additions or deletions from each of the named lists. -- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net -- ...computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1/2 tons. -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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