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Re: new list (RE: subscribe new, remove old



On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 09:47:30AM +0200, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Howard Chu wrote:
> > I've just sent you the current member list. It's up to date and
> > somewhat-sorted by domain... When the new list is running, I will
> > change "mint@atari.archive.umich.edu" to forward to the new address.
> > Likewise for mint-request....
> 
> Actually, a better idea would be to return a message to the poster,
> saying something like: "The MiNT list is now hosted elsewhere.
> Please send further posts to mint@fishpool.com". 
> 
> We just want to avoid people getting the same posts twice, if they 
> subscribe to both lists... :)

I guess you don't see the point. The idea was that we'd have only one list,
and mint@atari.archive.umich.edu pointing to the real list, so that posts
to the old address still get through.

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