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Paul Russell <[log in to unmask]>
Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:26:40 -0500
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On 10/22/2004 12:02 PM, Siegfried Schmitt wrote:
> A few months ago, one of our local list owners asked me to create a
> special super-list. He told me to create three lists (list1, list2, list3)
> with the following configuration:
>
> list1:
>    sub-lists= list2,list3
>
> list2:
>    sub-lists= list1,list3
>
> list3:
>    sub-lists= list1,list2
>
> You can see, that every list is both a sub-list and a super-list of the
> other two lists. I thought that this would create some kind of loop and I
> was really astonished to see that it worked (on a 1.8d LISTSERV).

Given the fact that a message posted to any list will be distributed to
subscribers on all lists, I fail to see why there is a need for multiple
lists. Why not just use one list?

--
Paul Russell
Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame

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