I would not recommend your procedure:

1) when archives are "trimmed," placement of archive is relocated.

2) when a NOMAIL subscriber (perhaps a WEB user, or on vacation) starts
receiving mail, that's not good.

I have an alternate suggestion: start a NEW list that is archive-only and
set the "permissions" so that the discussion list subscribers can access
the archive-only list archives.  Of course the subscribers of the
archive-only list would be who you want to be able to store into it.  The
discussion list would have all of the "usual" anti-attachment list
definition parameters.


/Pete

At 09:58 05/20/2002 Monday, Barak Moshe wrote:
 >Hi,
 >Sending attachment to a large list can be an extra load on the system
 >(space-wise). What I do usually, is perform the following sequence, manually:
 >
 >1. quiet set list-name nomail for *@*
 >2. send the attachments to list-name (nothing is sent out because of
(1) above
 >   but a copy is archived.
 >3. quiet set list-name mail for *@*
 >4. send a short mail to list-name with the url of the proper archive.
 >
 >With large lists/large attachments, the savings is huge, and there is
just one
 >copy in the system.
 >
 >The problem is that this procedure is not likely to be followed by some list
 >owners, secretaries etc and I wanted to either automate it or
semi-automate it
 >through a script, a web page, etc.
 >I wonder if anyone has been doing something in this direction ?