Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: C News newgroup handling (Was: Re: Enough of ...)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 90 14:43:15 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov3.144315.17672@druid.uucp>
References: <1990Oct26.173215.17486@druid.uucp> <4244@lib.tmc.edu> <2730597C.39AE@tct.uucp>

In article <2730597C.39AE@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>[...]
>I like the approach.  An alternative implementation would have
>newgroup and rmgroup add a specially formatted line to the message.
>Something like:
>
>	@addgroup foo.bar y
>
>Then the system delivery file, triggered by the Reply-To: address
>would execute the given command (after checking it for
>reasonableness, of course).
>
>I just might do it...

I just did it.  You have probably seen it by now.  One big difference
though is that rather than use Reply-To I just save the approved
message to a folder and have cron check it from time to time to see
if there is any work to do.  I originally implemented Reply-To myself
but replying to a message is a lot more work than just saving it to
a folder.  At least that is true in Elm.  I'm not sure about other
mail handlers but I suspect it to be generally true.  In my case I
just enter "s=g" when I see a control message that I approve of.  Works
just fine so far.

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