On Fri, 8 Sep 89 11:18:43 EDT Ross Patterson said:
>                       The  "SIGNOFF * (NETWIDE"  command does  a real
>nice job, but there are a few Netwide commands missing:
> ...
 
May I suggest still two other netwide commands? They are
 
   SUSPEND * (NETWIDE
   RESUME  * (NETWIDE
 
The purpose of the first would be  to stop any list traffic to you until
you issue the  second. One could use them to  temporarily stop receiving
mail from  mailing lists while  on vacation or  out of town  for several
days. Receiving 50  to 80 mail items  a day, I can't  afford leaving for
hollidays and let mail pour in every day.
 
What  I'm currently  doing is  to issue  a SIGNOFF  * (NETWIDE  before I
leave, and,  when I  return, editing all  the confirmation  notices from
all LISTSERVs  around the  world and  make a LISTSERV  job out  of them,
which contains SUBSCRIBE  commands to all the lists I  was subscribed to
before. It's rather boring. And of  course it doesn't set the options to
what they were before (some lists  I'm subscribed to don't have NOACK as
a default for example).
 
The two commands mentioned above would nicely solve that problem.
 
Sincerely
 Rainer
 
 
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