Sat, 4 Jul 1992 21:07:38 +0200
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On Fri, 3 Jul 1992 21:48:33 PDT Richard Childers <[log in to unmask]>
said:
>I can't believe that it would be that hard to write a shell script under
>Unix that would emulate the ( strictly finite ) number of operations
>that LISTSERV supports (...) Write the script to read the file once
>every so often, read each message, act appropriately, zero the file and
>split. Add some mechanisms to keep the script from zeroing the file when
>it's being accessed by the mail delivery agent. You're done. Once the
>script works, turn it into a *simple* C program. Runs faster, less
>likely to crash. (...) The actual implimentation of a LISTSERV is
>trivial, IMHO.
Then why don't you spare us the lecture and just do it? I mean, if a
cretin like me needed a few years to do it on such a stone age operating
system as VM, it can't take an intelligent person like you more than a
couple hours on a modern system.
>If there is an Internet group meeting on the topic of LISTSERV, I would
>predict that they are meeting to agree on a common command syntax so
>that all LISTSERVs behave identically, much as FTP and telnet behave
>identically under diverse operating systems.
The problem of the group in question is that it is mostly comprised of
(1) people whose goal in life is to tell other people how to run their
life and the whole world and (2) people like you, who talk a lot but
don't do much.
Eric
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