X-Message-Number: 1141 From: Kevin Q. Brown Subject: Re: Mailing List and sci.cryonics Cross-Posting Date: 14 Aug 1992 In message #1117 I mentioned difficulty avoiding duplicate postings for people who read both sci.cryonics and cryonics mailing list messages. "Since the forwarding from the cryonics mailing list to sci.cryonics is not well automated, though, this creates more administrative overhead for me and I am not yet ready to tackle it." I now have a solution. It's amazing how a small change in the problem statement can greatly simplify it. (Why didn't I think of it before!) Please let know if you read sci.cryonics so that I can move your cryonics mailing list entry to the readers-of-sci.cryonics cryonics mailing list. My software will remove automatically from your cryonics mailing list digest any messages forwarded from sci.cryonics. (The software checks for the string "^Newsgroups: .*sci.cryonics" in the messages queued up for mailblast.) To avoid reading messages forwarded from the cryonics mailing list to sci.cryonics, though, you will have to do a little work. Set up your "kill" file to skip any message with the string: X-Crossposted-To: cryonics mailing list in the header. (Note that I said "cryonics mailing list" rather than "cryonet" because, since the creation of sci.cryonics, the term "cryonet" has become an ambigous term.) If you have already started "killing" any messages from: as I suggested in message #1117, please remove that entry. (I hate telling people not to listen to what I have to say. :-)) In case you were wondering, the restatement of the problem that relieved my administrative difficulties was essentially to put the burden on you, not me, to filter out the messages forwarded from the mailing list to sci.cryonics. Maybe someday I'll make a good bureaucrat! :-) Kevin Q. Brown UUCP ...att!whscad1!kqb INTERNET or PS: Thanks for the suggestion to use "X-Crossposted-To:" in the mailing list messages forwarded to sci.cryonics. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1141