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Merger and mailing lists

Hi,

Since we haven't seemed to reach a consensus about a mailing list merger 
(or maybe I've been asleep), I am making an assumption that it is because 
people don't want to take so big a step.  In the spirit of making this 
change, I propose the following way to make the transition 100% painless, 
even for people who don't know about it.

We should take up Tuna's offer, creating a "POLICY-L" or whatever else we 
want to call it on Vermont's server, then have CEDA-L and NDT-L both 
subscribe to the list.  That way, messages sent to POLICY-L would be 
received as usual by those subscribed to any of the two mailing lists, but 
we would have already merged the lists.  I was about to say we should also 
subscribe the new list to the old ones to avoid losing messages from those 
who haven't changed subscriptions yet, but that would seem to result in an 
infinite loop and we'd probably single-handedly clog all the Internet 
routers in the US with our mail!

My question is, is this possible?  Could a list administrator send a 
subscription request to the new list, or are the addresses like 
CEDA-L@whatever and NDT-L@whatever (I have them in my address book, so I 
don't need to know) only partially implemented?  Would the headers work out 
okay, ie, would CEDA-L or NDT-L complain about receiving messages with 
POLICY-L in the "to" field? (as I assume would have to happen since that's 
the only way I've seen lists implemented; I really don't know about the 
options available)  Any way to resolve the infinite loop without losing 
anyone's posts?

Just a suggestion,

Chris Smith
Woodland Park HS Debate

"Love is apparently killed by time, only because it transcends time; and 
its spiritual and infinite essence cannot be contained with the limitations 
of a material and finite world."
	- Caroline Spurgeon, on Shakespeare's philosophy of love

"Lay not that flattering unction to your soul / That not your trespass but 
my madness speaks"
	- Shakespeare, _Hamlet_, Act III
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