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From: "Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Duplicates and the purge.
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 09:47:33 -0400
Spike wrote:
>I've just had a wonderful *ping* idea....
><Pulls cord and lightbulb over head goes out>
>
>Is there any way to make elm DELAY posting a message for a set amount of
>time? 'cos if there is, when the date came through, I could set it to send
>the subscribe message automatically, while I'm away....

Well, it's easy enough to tell unix to delay running elm... Set up a
crontab to run "elm -s subject email@******* < message.file" at the
appropriate time.

If you can't run crontab, setup a sh script to sleep lots and then run
elm as above. The just run the script with nohup.

James Ojaste

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