Dear colleagues,
 
I am considering a special setup for my list HISTORY. What I want to do
is the following:
 
a) all peers of HISTORY remain unchanged, except that I enable the DIGEST-
   feature where LISTSERV 1.7f is installed - HISTORY has three European
   peers, and LISTEARN hasn't introduced automatic digests yet.
 
b) I create a new list called HIST-DIG which is subscribed to a nearby
   HISTORY peer, but is *not* a peer of HISTORY. HIST-DIG's default options
   are set to DIGEST, so that all subscribers will receive digests rather
   than single postings. This *should* result in the fact that my European
   subscribers can either sign off from HISTORY and subscribe to HIST-DIG
   or set HISTORY to NOMAIL and subscribe to HIST-DIG (whatever they
   prefer), with the effect that they will from then on receive digested
   mailings from HISTORY via HIST-DIG.
 
Did I make myself clear? I hope I did, because I'd like to know whether
this is setup is possible without causing too many problems, and I'd also
like you to tell me whether you find this a good idea.
 
Yours,
 
Thomas Zielke
 
Historisches Seminar
Universit{t Oldenburg
 
Postfach 2503
D-W-2900 Oldenburg