Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!think.com!linus!agate!agate!cgd From: cgd@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Checking out messages to a mailing list. Message-ID: Date: 16 Apr 91 08:14:28 GMT References: <1991Apr15.153017.8329@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Distribution: na Organization: ucb Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: irvin@northstar.dartmouth.edu's message of 15 Apr 91 15: 30:17 GMT In article <1991Apr15.153017.8329@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> irvin@northstar.dartmouth.edu (Tim Irvin) writes: }When our users have question they send it to an alias that gets exploded }to each of the Admins. So we each get a copy of the message. We then run }into the problem of not knowing who is going to answer the question, without }asking each other in person. It would be nice if there was someway we could }"check-out" a question to answer to eliminate the confusion. }Does anyone have any ideas, or is anyone currently doing something like }this??? I would imagine this situation is not unique. One thing you can do doesn't really solve the problem well, but get's the job done is what several of us (Staffers at the OCF) do... Optionally use mh to put all of your staff mail in different folder than your normal mail (using slocal). Read that folder (or your normal mail) *BACKWARDS*... (like: rmm;prev). It's a kludge, but it gets the job done - the only time you'll have multiple replies are when people are reading their mail at exactly the same time. Chris Demetriou cgd@ocf.berkeley.edu