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From: pen@formtek.UUCP (Philip E. Nickerson, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X mailing lists
Message-ID: <8803301550.AA01416@ruby.formtek.com>
Date: 30 Mar 88 15:50:32 GMT
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I sent this awhile ago, but never got it back.  Our mail system was down for
awhile, so I assume this message got gobbled, anyway.......

Is anyone maintaining a list of the messages???  Perhaps there should
be a message_lists-request which will send a copy of the current messages
to the requester each time a request is made.  I'm not sure we get all of the
messages from xpert as we have problems getting uucp mail from time to time and
I would not want to miss out on a pertinent mailing list.

As sub mailing lists are created, an index should be updated of the current
lists available.  This too should be available from a request server.

On a similar vein, is a list of the "Subject:" lines for each message
available.  It would be helpful for us to be able to get these to try to
collect important messages we might have missed due to uucp problems.  Perhaps
the xpert-request address could be expanded to accept a syntax in the message
or the subject line which would allow the requester to obtain these lists or
past missed messages.  For example:

	To: xpert-request
	Subject: New request types

	add			!an old familiar
	remove			!an old familiar
	request message_index	!subject lines of all available messages
	request mailing_lists	!would send requester the list of mailing lists
	request message <###>	!requests an old message (I don't know what
				!an appropriate syntax for the message would be)

the request message <###> should be extended to the other mailing lists.  I am
assuming the xpert-request address is automated.

						-Phil
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