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List:       hypermail
Subject:    Re: [hypermail] Strange request for Hypermail!
From:       "Peter C.McCluskey" <pcm () rahul ! net>
Date:       2002-06-19 0:18:08
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 grp@med.uoc.gr (G G PAPAZOGLOU) writes:
>Sounds OK, if you want to add a more general feature. Yet I don't see the need 
>for such a complex development if you have in mind such a simple issue as 
>mine. In my case for example, it would be enough for me if a simple text file 
>is created by Hypermail containing the stuff I request each time it is 
>executed. I wouldn't want it to require more resources or bandwidth. Also, I 
>don't particularly like something as general as 'executing external commands'. 
>If I wanted something so general I could start looking how to do the whole 
>thing using a Perl script. I believe the purpose here is ease of 
>administration. 

 I suspect your purpose is sufficiently specialized and unlikely to be
used by many others that it doesn't make too much sense to put something
in Hypermail to handle it. A Perl script may well be a better answer.
 I will postpone my plans to add a general purpose feature.
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