On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:29:31AM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:41:46PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > Is there some problem with the list servers at the moment? I haven't > > received a debian-user-digest since March 31st. Yet on visiting > > lists.debian.org I see there's been plenty of traffic. Has anybody > > else not received the digest? > > I'm not currently subscribed to the digest, but have been in the past. > Over that time, probably 4 or 5 occurrences of what you describe > happened. You get nothing for days on end, then all of a sudden it > starts up again. Hence, I'm back to the debian-user over dialup thing > too :)
Thanks, that's useful to know... so presumably when it does get going again, I'll receive 100 digests in a lump? duplicating a few thousand messages? But if I block the duplicates, the list server gets error returns and automatically unsubscribes me (or so I understand). Oh well. > BTW, if the digest does get going again, you can use procmail and > formail to automatically split it into separate messages again before > delivering it to your folder. Makes reading it by thread a whole lot > easier. Before I knew about this, I wrote a C program to do it, which I'm still using as I've had no other reason to want to install [proc|for]mail. But thanks for the suggestion. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
