From: Peter C.McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 19:18:08 CDT
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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