From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Knadle Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:29:23 +0000 Subject: Re: [mlmmj] Getting resent mail when subscribing to list Message-Id: <2862965.4czEmuXF9W@trelane> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 13:02:15 Matti Nykyri wrote: > Hello > > I recently installed mlmmj on my server. I would like to add an option to > tunables so that list could be configured to send old posts when people > subscribe to the list > > I'm thinking of adding a tunable subget (normal) that will as many old posts > as defined in the tunable. I'll download source from git and supply a patch > if you are interested. I'm not a developer of mlmmj (yet) but sending someone /all/ of the old posts automatically upon signup doesn't sound like a good idea, because that could have all kinds of unintended consequences. Say, for instance, that the list has 10,000 messages in it, and 4 people sign up for the list today. Yikes. Or, a user of such a list removes one's self from the list, then later the same day signs back up for it thus triggering getting the entire list history again for no good reason. A more interesting option which could do the same thing would be to allow a subscriber of the list to be sent a particular /range/ of list emails. Mlmmj comes with the facility for a subscriber to retrieve a /particular/ list email via sending a message to +get-N@ where "N" is the message #; if this could be expanded to +get-{N-M}@ such that the "{N-M}" could be parsed as a range and mlmmj modified to send that range of emails back to the user, then the user could have the /option/ of retrieving the portion of the mailing list that they're interested in. Let me know what you think of this tweak to the idea. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle Chris.Knadle@coredump.us