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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Smail, Aliases & Programs
Keywords: smail alias
Message-ID: <1989Nov17.234532.10842@twwells.com>
Date: 17 Nov 89 23:45:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: twwells.1989Nov17.234532.10842
References: <590@piglet.vision.UUCP> <2561CDFB.4258@ateng.com>
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In article <2561CDFB.4258@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
: According to bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells):
: >Well, this all depends on your point of view. Personally, I'd find
: >maintaining my mailing list using deliver's mechanisms a bit of a
: >bother. Whereas, with lmail, all I do is add a name to a list.
:
: Deliver can arrange to be just that simple to use:
:
:       case "$u" in
:       mailing-list)
:               awk '{print $1}' /usr/local/lib/mailing-list-file
:               ;;
:       *)
:               echo "$u"
:               ;;
:       esac

Awk! For my system, I'd use instead of the awk line:

	sed 's/#.*//' </usr/archive/objectivism/archive/members \
	   | tr '\011 ' '\012\012' \
	   | sed '^$d'

which would give me comments and multiple names per line, not to
mention would probably _still_ be faster than the single call to
awk!

Since lmail's mailing list files are just forwarding files, any
kind of alias can go in them. For example, in mine, there is an
alias to append mailing list messages to a file. I could also run
them through a filter or another mailing list file if I wanted to.

I assume that by adding the appropriate commands right after the
awk, I could get Deliver to do the same thing.

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