lindberg at id
Nov 18, 1997, 2:23 PM
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On 18 Nov 1997 19:50:51 -0000, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>It's not doing the same thing. I don't want to force the FAQ down the
>throats of everybody on the list every time I correct a typo, I want
>to make it *available* to the people when *they* want it.
That's *easy*, it's just different ...
1. reserve messages 1-10 (start the list with DIR/num = 10), or if you have a
running list, disable deliveries, change DIR/num from 'n' to 'n+10' and
consider n+1 ... n+10 reserved. Reenable deliveries.
2. Make a faq as a mail message or just text.
3. % cp faq.txt DIR/archive/m/pp [.where x is a reserved message number m=x /
100, pp = x % 100 (pp is 2 digits)].
4. Your list users can get the faq by sending mail to list-get-x any time.
5. You can at any time update the faq, by repeating (3).
If you would like a subject entry for the faq, just prefix your faq document
with a line starting 'Subject:' with subject text, followed by a blank line,
and do '% ezmlm-idx DIR' after (3).
You can do the same for a charter or whatever else you'd like to make
available.
To notify the users, put suitable instructions to taste into DIR/text/bottom
or DIR/text/trailer, or DIR/text/sub-ok.
If you use ezmlm-idx-0.21, you can set up lists to always reserve the first 10
messages. In ezmlmrc put:
</num#E/>
10
</dignum#iE/>
10
The latter is just to avoid 10 "I don't see that message" in the first digest.
Also, you may not want the reserved messages to go out in any digest anyway.
Similarly, you can put the instructions in via ezmlmrc so that they'll be
there for every new list on you system/for a particular user. If you like, you
can even make a generic charter/faq with ezmlm-make/ezmlmrc:
</archive/0/01#a/>
Subject: <#L#>@<#H#> mailing list FAQ
This is a collection of ....
</archive/0/02#a/>
Subject: Charter for the <#L#>@<#H#> list
If you spam, you're out ...
..
You may want to set it up this way only for *some* lists (of the system/user):
Just use an unused flag 'z' of ezmlm-make and add a 'z' after the '#' to all
of the above items and use 'ezmlm-make -z ...' to create this type of list.
Hope this helps your migration!
-Sincerely, Fred
(Frederik Lindberg, Infectious Diseases, WashU, St. Louis, MO, USA)
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