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Re: [ba-ohs-talk] Purpling our BA-OHS and BA-UNREV e-mails


Many thanks for offering, Chris!    (01)

Hopefully, someone who has some clue as to where the
servers are even located will be in touch with you soon.
:_)    (02)

Chris Dent wrote:    (03)

> If someone can let me know where mhonarc fits into majordomo's
> process chain at bootstrap, I can make some progress on this.
> There are some race conditions that can be avoided with some
> dancing, but how you dance depends on where mhonarc is fit in.
>
> Of course none of this is worth doing if we aren't able to the
> administrators of the bootstrap machines.
>
> There are two paths. One is the switch to Mailman that Eugene
> recommended. This requires a lot of cooperation with the
> administrators. The other is to hack at majordomo. This also
> requires a fair piece of cooperation but might be possible with
> just a change to the aliases file on the mail server.
>
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Eric Armstrong wrote:
>
> > Second the motion!
>
> [snip]
>
> > Mark Szpakowski wrote:
> >
> > > This is a follow-up to some suggestions made in April...
> > >
> > > On April 22, at http://www.bootstrap.org/lists/ba-ohs-
> > > talk/0204/msg00144.html#nid05,
> > > I suggested that:
> > >
> > > > If they [e-mails] hit Eugene's program first, and _then_ got
> > > > redistributed, we could gradually start receiving richer versions of the
> > > > e-mail items in our own mailboxes, For starters, arriving with the URI
> > > > of message in the archive. I could then easily grab and feed that to my
> > > > personal information husbandry routines.
>
> [snip]
>
> --
> Chris Dent  <cdent@burningchrome.com>  http://www.burningchrome.com/~cdent/
> "If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are
> opportunities to change things, that hope is possible, then hope may be
> justified, and a better world may be built. That's your choice.'' N.Chomsky    (04)