At 01:02 AM 2/6/99 -0800, Jim Poston wrote:
>The Pegasus Mail support lists are close to what you've described.
>There are separate sublists for PM-Win, PM-DOS, Mercury, etc. Any
>mail that goes to those lists is automatically echoed to the PMAIL
>list (the superlist), which also accepts mail to it.
>The downside is that some users who don't quite have the concept down
>send messages to a sublist, and also to the master list. Then the
>master list ends up with dupes.
I've tried subscribing one list to another, which will work with
any server software, but that doesn't address two key issues:
- duplicate messages (as you noted)
- how does a user pick which set of info to receive?
The second problem is the most vexing: If I have 22 lists, does a
user subscribe to each list separately but then send to master lists,
or does the user subscribe to "one of N" master lists (all combos
of 22 lists would have to be sitting around just in case)? Either way,
people will not be able to send to the list they subscribed to unless
there is some piece of software looking for dups and creating posts on
the other list(s).
