** Sometime around 10:10 +0200 4/24/97, Eric Thomas sent everyone:
>There are two ways you can join a list in DIGEST mode atomically with
>LISTSERV. The first is to use the SUBSCRIBE WITH command:
>
> SUBSCRIBE XYZ-L WITH DIGEST
>
>This function combines SUBSCRIBE and SET in a single command. It was
::snip::
Yes yes yes yes YES! *BINGO*! That works very nicely. I'd still like to see
sequential commands supported, just for backward compatibility, but this
option certainly answers the mail.
> ...
> OK BEGIN
> SUBSCRIBE XYZ-L
> SET XYZ-L DIGEST
> OK END
> ...
::snip::
Good for power users; newbies will screw it up and come complaining. I'll
take "SUBSCRIBE XYZ WITH DIGEST" for $500, Alex ...
>Both features are new in 1.8d, if your host site is one of the beta
>testers they can get a build with this functionality.
Probably not, but I'll wait patiently. Hopefully, other developers will
follow suit on this type of functionality ... (excluding those who've
already done it, of course)
- Vince Sabio
orionsoft@telephonet.com
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