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[Michelle Murrain <address@concealed>]

At 11:34 AM +0100 1/19/04, Thomas Barth wrote:
> Hi?
>
> What is the user-table for? It doesn't make any sense that all
> subscribers from file are also imported to the user-table.
> All subscribers have been imported from file as described in the docu
> chapter 6.5.1.
>
> address@concealed John Doe
> address@concealed Mary Wonderland
>
> To import data I use the import option of sympa
>
> cat my_subscribers.txt | sympa.pl --import=my_testlist
>
> Why are subsribers equal to users?

I can't speak of your importing issue - I'm not sure what the problem 
is there. But the point of having two tables is that the user table 
holds information specific to each user, like language, name, and 
password. The subscriber table is for stuff particular to each list. 
like the date they subscribed, their visibility, etc.

It might not be exactly the way I would have done it, but it makes 
lots of sense to me.
--
.Michelle

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