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Ross Patterson <A024012@RUTVM1>
Thu, 17 Aug 89 16:55:47 EDT
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On Tue, 15 Aug 89 12:05:59 GMT Eric Thomas said:
>What I could  easily do is change  this to generate a single  mail message, as
>explained above;  the origin of this  message would be the  LISTSERV userid, I
>could set the subject to whatever you want, and the body would contain a short
>blurb, a  banner line,  and a  copy of the  original, unmodified  message. The
>advantages of  having a single message  rather than 2 are  obvious, however it
>should be noted that  this cannot be just forwarded as it is  to the list; you
>would need to delete the blurb (unless your purpose is to bore your audience),
>and you would have to do something  about the headers in the body, or LISTSERV
>would choke on them and reject the  message. Finally, if your did a FORWARD of
>that note, the  message would appear as "originally from"  the LISTSERV userid
>(if really needed, I could place something else in the "From:" field).
 
How about simply adding "Resent-from: LISTSERV@node", "Resent-to: editor", and
"Resent-date: ...", and
sending it out? The editor would only have to remove the three Resent lines and
forward it back to LISTSERV.
 
Ross

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