From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Thu Nov 11 1999 - 12:54:34 CST
"G. James Berigan" <usefor@war-of-the-worlds.org> wrote:
> Okay, but there's still the merge syntax to consider:
>
> mvgroup old.groups.* new.group moderated
>
> Do we issue the newgroup and hope it arrives before the mvgroup so that we
> avoid the situation where, if it comes after, an non-moderated group gets
> turned into a moderated group with limited success? There's something to
> be said for getting it right the first time rather than correcting for
> mistakes later.
I would hope that the mvgroup would imply the destination group
creation, and that a newgroup would either not be needed, or (for sites
missing mvgroup) would be redundant. In other words, I would hope that
order was not important.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc When taking small children to a carnival, always have them go potty *before* you let them go on the rides, and let them eat all the junk food and candy *after*.