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Sat, 29 Aug 1998 17:58:36 -0400
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Nathan Brindle wrote:

> In a case like this I would suggest separate lists, and make them all
> sub-lists of a super-list which would be used to post messages that
> all of the users (regardless of language) should receive.  That way
> the digests will contain only what you want them to contain.  This is
> the most efficient way to handle your needs, and it will be
> immediately obvious to the user that he has signed up for the German
> list, or the French list, or ..., without a need to set an explicit
> topic once he has subscribed.

The problem with this design, as I see it, is that those of us who pay
per subscriber are going to end up paying twice -- once for the sublist,
once for the superlist.  Is that correct?

Mary Schweitzer

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