mmorse@Z.NSF.GOV ("Michael H. Morse") (04/18/91)
Archive-name: mail/readers/queuemh/1991-04-17
Archive: boulder.colorado.edu:/pub/queuemh.tar.Z [128.138.240.1]
Original-posting-by: mmorse@Z.NSF.GOV ("Michael H. Morse")
Original-subject: Re: Checking out messages to a mailing list.
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
> When our users have question they send it to an alias that gets exploded
> to each of the Admins. So we each get a copy of the message. We then run
> into the problem of not knowing who is going to answer the question, without
> asking each other in person. It would be nice if there was someway we could
> "check-out" a question to answer to eliminate the confusion.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas, or is anyone currently doing something like
> this??? I would imagine this situation is not unique.
There's a system called queuemh designed to handle this. Ftp it from
boulder.colorado.edu. It's file pub/queuemh.tar.Z.
I've never used it, but from the documentation it appears that some thought and
effort has been put into solving something close to the problem you describe.
--Mike
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-- comp.archives file verification
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-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp misc 63961 Jan 6 13:22 /pub/queuemh.tar.Z
found queuemh ok
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