At 05:33 PM 10/8/97 EDT, Maureen Leblanc wrote:
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>>Can't you make them NOMAIL on the accounts where they read, but let them
>>post from the ones they use?  I have a subscriber who does this, I just set
>>him nomail on one, and index on the other.  That way, he can access all the
>>subscriber benefits from either account, without causing anyone any trouble
>>
>
>This would be ideal, as Dan Lester also suggested.

Actually, it's backwards, everybody...  they should be MAIL where they read,
and NOMAIL from where they only want to post (and they can also post from
where they read, of course).

>Here's the original post:
>
>>1.  Set yourself up a hotmail account (www.hotmail.com) under a
>>dummy name.  Subscribe to HWY61-L.  Use the account for nothing
>>else.  That way you get the digests (or whatever you want).
>>
>>2.  Post to rmd under your own name/normal address.

I suggest posting an "addendum" to such posts telling folks
to also subscribe from the posting address and how to set it NOMAIL
themselves.  This might not always "click" but it might cut down
at least some of the volume for the moderator to handle.

This almost sounds to me like someone might have asked how to
get both "regular" and "digest" subscriptions, with the "dummy name"
suggestion coming from a confused person who thinks names need to
be unique for subscribers.  (I get both regular and index on one
list by using different subdomains which resolve to the same mailbox;
no extra account required; may not be possible for everyone though.)

Cheers,
Stan