[Mailman-Users] external archiver second time

[Gerald V. Livingston II]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:58:35 +0200 Jonas Meurer <jonas at freesources.org> wrote:

> still, the hole workaround is not the best solution. the lists i
> maintain are all in the style 'part1-part2-part3-...'. some without any
> -, some with many. so i split the list in the parts, n=number of parts.
> then i do 16/n, and every part gets as many chars as the result gives.
> now the first run of a loop fills the acronym until 1*(16/n), the second
> until 2*(16/n). so there will always result an acronym without the - but
> with at least 16/n chars per part, if the part is long enough. here is
> the algoritm script:
> actual_list_lc=`echo $actual_list | awk '{print tolower($0)}'`
> actual_list_id=`echo $actual_list_lc |
> awk'{s="";n=split($0,a,/-/);c=16/n;for(i=1;i<=n;i++){s=s""substr(a[i],1,c
> *i-length(s))};print tolower(s)}'
> 
> if $actual_list has value "Argentina-Communicados" for example,
> $actual_list_lc will be "argentina-communicados", and $actual_list_id
> will have value "argentincommunic".

What happens if an english speaking customer/friend creates another list on
your host called "Argentine-Communications"??

G

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