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From: lcz@dptspd.sat.datapoint.com (Lee Ziegenhals)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Short expiration on comp.mail.maps?
Message-ID: <598@dptspd.sat.datapoint.com>
Date: 18 Jul 90 16:48:30 GMT
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Organization: Datapoint Corporation, San Antonio, TX
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dave@imax.com (Dave Martindale) writes:

>One very common way of dealing with the maps is to feed them to a processing
>script via a dummy site entry in the news sys file.  For example,...

This is a good idea, and I may change my processing to use this method.

>How many people run pathalias directly from the news articles in /usr/spool?
>Is this common?

I don't actually run pathalias from the maps in the news spool directory.  I
use the :F: option in my sys file to keep a list of the incoming maps, and
then process them out of the spool directory once per day.  The articles
are processed and stored into map files in a separate directory at that
time.  This worked just fine until the other day :-).  However, the only
reason it's done that way is because it was done that way when I took over.