If the sender is a subcriber to a mailing list, might it be useful to modify the
list
manager (majordomo etc.) so that the Info sent as a greeting to new list members
would inform them of the location of the archive. usually a user can get this
information
via some kind of command (info list_name , for majordomo sites)
Any time that the archive is moved or initiated the notice should be sent to all
list members. If this becomes a publishing/copyright problem then the archival
process
must become much more complicated,
I would not like to see any such modification be a default option in Mhonarc.
Earl Hood wrote:
> On July 30, 1999 at 08:46, "Bert Hiddink" wrote:
>
> > Would it be possible to notify a subscriber everytime he/she sends a
> > message to a mailinglist, indicating where his/her message was
> > published by Mhonarc on the web?
>
> Many things are possible, it is just matter if they are practical :-)
>
> > "Your message was published at:
> > http://www.site.net/mailinglist/msg00897.html
>
> > To send he/she an autoresponder would be more a task for Procmail, I
> > suppose but I would need then to include in this respons the
> > %messagenumber which is a Mhonarc variable.
>
> First, I have to question the usefulness of such an auto-response.
> It could get annoying.
>
> With that said, a solution is to access some of the guts of mhonarc
> with a custom front-end that can return the filename of the messages
> that were added.
>
> New messages are denoted by the %mhonarc::AddIndex hash. You
> could create your own variation of mhonarc as follows:
>
> MAIN: {
> require 'mhamain.pl';
> mhonarc::initialize();
>
> if (mhonarc::process_input()) {
> foreach (keys %mhonarc::AddIndex) {
> print "File added: ", mhonarc::get_filename_from_index($_), "\n";
> }
> exit(0); # All is well
> }
>
> ## Get here, some error occurred
> exit($mhonarc::CODE);
> }
>
> Note, this will only generate filename output when ADD (-add) mode is
> active. Make sure to give a different name for your custom version of
> mhonarc.
>
> You can now parse stdout from mhonarc to extract the filename(s) so
> you can generate your auto-reply.
>
> --ewh
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