Jody wrote in 000831 MMDigest:
> I thank everyone for their interest and patience as we
> try to automate more of the MMD's operation.
I was wondering why you didn't simply migrate the list to e-groups
where all of this has been operational for many, many months. :)
Bill+
Fr. Bill Leaming, SSG
[ We have a fairly elaborate mailing scheme for MMD, based upon the
[ sender's email address, which can replace the name and address that
[ appear in the "From" line of MMDigest. For example, some subscribers
[ ask that the Digest be sent to a work address which they don't want
[ published publicly. Another feature unique to MMD is the indexed
[ Archives, which is automatically generated. (Someday Jody will have
[ an honest-to-goodness search engine for the Archives, so that one
[ can search for a character string, like Alta Vista does.)
[
[ The need for automation is simple: we have over 1100 subscribers, and
[ about 2% change their email address each month. Another
[ 1% un-subscribes while maybe 1.1% joins as new subscribers. We have
[ studied the commercial and shareware list servers and none of them
[ do quite what we want, so Jody wrote a list-server program which
[ continues to evolve. -- Robbie
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