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	Only the last entry is complete, the others might have been condensed.

1993/02/04: v2.80
	    Started using CVS to manage the source (god's gift to programmers)
1993/02/19: v2.81
1993/06/02: v2.82 (never really released, was only available as prerelease 4)
1993/07/01: v2.90
1993/07/02: v2.91
	    Corrected the SHELL=/bin/shell assignment in install.sh
	    Made install.sh check if procmail was compiled without
	       "#define console"
	    Stripping off leading "From " lines now before passing mails
	       through the mailinglist
1994/06/14: v3.00
	    Cleaned up install.sh* for the mailinglists: starting su with
	       commands on stdin, checking some permissions now in the
	       filesystem to prevent silly mistakes during the installation
	    v2.91 archive server logged into the wrong file (../log), fixed
	    Made the x_command script list the nearest match when adding
	       or removing people from a list
	    New x_command directive: checkdist
	    New convenience command: donatelist
	    Fixed a few typos that slipped into procbounce and flush_digests
	    Explicit support for moderated lists
	    Eliminating duplicate submissions
	    Catering for autoreplies to people not on the accept list
	    Flush_digests can now be forced to push out digests
	    Made the generated digests MIME compliant
	    Clipped an a bit too greedy -request-redirection-regexp in
	       rc.submit
	    Implicit subscription can be enabled (force_subscribe in
	       rc.custom)
	    You can create a subscreen script to screen the addresses
	       of prospective subscribers (allows tighter control)
	    Tuned the procbounce script (it does what I mean now
	       and it got more verbose in its diagnostics)
	    Taught procbounce about the more information deprived
	       bounce messages (it can handle almost every bounce now)
	    Changes to the arch_retrieve script:
	       - allow the archive directory to be a symbolic link itself
	       - friendlier help command
	       - allow searching for regexps
	       - protect the user against all too eager wildcards
	       - fixed the ls command (one mail back per command)
	       - made it more intelligent with respect to ignoring
		 signatures
	       - the standalone archive server will include the contents
		 of the optional help.txt and info.txt files on a help
		 request
	       - raise the breakoff_search limit
	       - allow the most common flags on egrep
	    Carbon copies of subscription requests contained misleading
	       diagnostics
	    Subscription notifications will be done to both the sender
	       and the new subscriber (in case the addresses differ)
	    Fixed the problem of sometimes subscribing "please"
	    Educated subscribe about some caveats when extracting the
	       subscription addresses from the signatures
	    Provided for standard hooks where people can plug in their
	       semi-permanent local customisations in the rcfiles
	    Split off the mailinglist scripts in a separate package called
	       "SmartList"
	    Flist recognises itself as flist if argv[0] starts with `flist'
	    Install.sh now tries to preset rc.init.new with values for
	       PATH, domain and listmaster (if you are upgrading)
	    Rc.submit will add a To: field to outgoing mails if there wasn't
	       any
	    Mail to digested lists will be automatically reposted on the
	       undigested list (if any)
	    Provided for an alt_sendmail variable in rc.init, to switch
	       between the two sendmail invocations
	    Adding the X-Diagnostic: Unprocessed if no further processing
	       seems to have taken place
	    Moved the idcheck functionality into formail -D (due to
	       popular demand)
	    Use the setid program instead of su while installing (does away
	       with those "inexplicable" installation problems)
	    Weed out duplicate Date: fields before resending mails
	    Created choplist, the dist-file expander
	    Created cronlist, the new recommended script to put in the
	       crontab entry (instead of flush_digests directly)
	    Allow for carbon copies to the maintainer of unsubscription
	       requests
	    Documented and slightly changed the behaviour of the digest.admin
	       administrivia files
	    If possible, the lists are now installed relative to the home
	       directory of the `list' account
	    Install the examples directory to .examples
	    Fixed the automatic archive history truncation for digests, they
	       previously were not truncated at all
	    Flist -v displays information about the currently installed version
	       of SmartList
	    Extracted the hardcoded help from the archive server into the
	       archive.txt file
	    Changed procbounce to send a final unsubscription message to
	       people that were taken off the list due to too many bounces
	    Allow reply_to to override the Reply-To: field in the digest
	    Support for default help text responses
	    Allow for unsubscription assistance
	    Full blown MIME support for the archive server (binary files,
	       arbitrary length, autosplitting, full MIME-encapsulation)
	    The archive server understands the "version" command
1994/06/15: v3.01
	    v3.00 didn't react to plain (un)subscribe requests
	    Installation as non-root had problems finding the right directory
1994/06/16: v3.02
	    Modifications to the archive server:
	       - support the MIME dir="" and name="" parameters
	       - force it to sleep between sending files (lowers load)
	       - only queue sent files, then flush the queue (lowers load)
	    Modifications to multigram:
	       - Strip leading or trailing unbalanced "'s from mailaddresses
	    The installation makes the scripts in .examples executable
	    This version of flist -v erroneously displayed v3.01
1994/06/30: v3.03
	    Laid out the requirements for MIME support in the Manual
	    Modifications to the archive server:
	      - fix a typo in mimencap for the fallback Content-Type: field
	      - work around a bug in mimencode
	      - change the dir= attribute to directory=
	      - also support the planned Content-Disposition: field (for naming
		files)
	      - propagate the SHELL variable to any sub-procmails we run
	    Updated some misleading comments in rc.submit
1994/08/02: v3.04
	    Changes to mimencap.local:
	       - Added support for the most recent MIME types
	       - Change the format of the Content-ID field to be RFC822
		 conforming
	    Arch_trunc didn't work quite as expected (somewhere around
	       v2.92pre10 this went wrong), and didn't truncate the archive
	       at all
	    Install.sh3 now prompts before overwriting mimencap.local
	    Install.sh3 now generates diffs between rc.init files and tries
	       to patch rc.init.new upon installation
	    Allow submissions with "Precedence: junk"
	    Inserted the missing newline for reply_to in digests
	    Put the contents of a digest in an extra MIME message
1994/08/04: v3.05
	    No real changes, just to synchronise versions with procmail
	    Most notably, formail v3.04 could cause problems on some machines
	       where sendmail does not remove the leading From_ line on
	       mail being forwarded
1994/08/30: v3.06
	    Removed the auto-encoding from mimencap.local, it was already
	       (and better) done in mimencap itself
	    Multigram truncates the dist file after unsubscribing someone
	       (if the OS supports it, that is)
	    Some new example files in the example directory
	    Insert some appropriate Reply-To's in the archive server, in order
	       to prevent people from replying to archive server mails
	    Typo fixed in comments in rc.init
	    Return the body of the mail as well if the person was not
	       on the accept list
	    Improved fuzzy search for explicit mail addresses in the
	       subscription request
1994/10/31: v3.10
	    Changes to rc.submit:
	       - Moved the accept.txt in front of the body of the mail
	       - The initial submission of force subscribed people was lost,
		 fixed
	    Make use of the -z option of formail, get rid of the leading
	       blank in the dist file for new subscriptions
	    Arch_retrieve log format changed, included timestamps
	    Standalone archive servers sometimes choked when receiving
	       many requests simultaneously, fixed
	    X-Command mails can unsubscribe anyone from a dist file,
	       even if the address is above the `magic' line
	    New flag in rc.custom: auto_unsubscribe
	    New shell script: "led", it should be used to edit any SmartList
	       governed file (does locking and attribute checks automatically)
	    If no Message-ID could be recovered from a bounced message,
	       procbounce always picked the same hashkey, fixed
	    Binary files requested through the archive server got spurious
	       newlines appended at the end, fixed
	    Multigram can take optional multiple filenames now
	    An optional second accept file "accept2"
	    Procbounce ignores lines starting with [1-4][0-9][0-9] (transient
	       failures)
	    Choplist supports kernels that don't support the #! hack
	    Subscribing third parties was impossible in v3.06, fixed
	    Forgot to export PATH in the cronlist example
	    Put in support to recognise the default domain for the accept
	       list and force_subscribe flag
	    Allow multigram to really display multiple matches (so that the
	       checkdist and unsub_assist features finally work as intended)
	    Tuned the multigram match values a bit, to improve the signal
	       to noise ratio for typical mail addresses
	    Mails that did not have a Return-Path: or Reply-To: field were
	       not replied to correctly (regression bug since v3.06), fixed
1995/05/17: v3.11pre3
	    Cc_unsubrequests and cc_requests had some undesirable side-effects
	    Procbounce reported spurious errors if badly formatted bounces
	       were received
	    Make use of the more readable "variable ?? y" wherever feasible
	    New rc.custom variable "divertcheck"
	    Flist will now bounce the mail instead of trying anyway if it has
	       insufficient privileges
	    Forgot to check the reject list if force_subscribe was used
	    Changes to the arch_retrieve script:
	       - Requests to egrep without providing at least one filename
		 prohibited processing the rest of the commands in the mail
	       - New command quit or exit to prohibit interpreting the rest
		 of the mail
	       - Eliminated the ${:+} construct, old shells complained
	    Procbounce ignores 0xx SMTP reply codes as well now
	    Some shells don't grok [!/], worked around this in install.sh
	    Changed renaming From_ to X-Envelope-From: to X-From_:
	    Made the default help.txt a bit more explicit
	    Changes to multigram:
	       - Eliminated lots of system calls during fuzzy matching
		 (basically a speedup)
	    The Solaris 2.3 grep doesn't accept -e options, caused a minor
	       glitch in createlist
	    Provide examples/rc.local.r00 sample for X-Command fields in the
	       body
	    Mask out Read-Receipt-To field on mails going through
	    The Approved field on moderated lists was not checked strictly
	       enough
	    Handle addresses with embedded newlines
	    Third party subscriptions didn't send subscribe.files to the new
	       subscriber
	    If someone (accidentally) removes the dist file, the subscribe
	       script will recreate an empty one (and log a warning)
1995/10/29: v3.11pre4
	    Changes to multigram:
	       - Account for compilers with sizeof(off_t)>sizeof(long)
	    Get rid of X-Confirm-Reading-To: fields on submissions
	    Deal more gracefully with those superverbose smail error mails
	    Forced subscriptions on moderated lists didn't work too well
	    Include author name in digest topic summaries
	    Use the -odi option to sendmail to improve control of the load
1997/04/28: v3.11pre7
	    Changes to multigram:
	       - Work around a DomainOS compiler bug
	    Createlist didn't work well if $HOME was set wrong
	    Spurious "attempt" unsubscribe notices that were more than just
	       attempts
1999/03/02: v3.12
	    donatelist now does the chmod g+s after the chown
	    Recognize more queue warning messages
	    Obtain the SmartList version number directly from patchlevel.h
	    Concatenate the header and body in a more efficient manner
	    Changes to multigram:
	       - Correctly locate '@' in addresses to look for `close' domains
	       - choplist wasn't counting addresses correctly
1999/03/31: v3.13
	    No real changes, just to synchronise versions with procmail
	    Most notably, procmail v3.12 broke $$=^0 conditions
	    The 3.12 HISTORY entry was incomplete
1999/12/17: v3.14 (never really released, was only available as prerelease)
	    If no Message-ID could be recovered from a bounced message,
	       procbounce always picked the same hashkey (this time I mean it)
	    Strip List-* header fields from incoming messages and add
	       List-Subscribe: and List-Unsubscribe: with mailto: URLs for
	       the request address
	    Automatic cross-posting of messages sent to a digested list over
	       to the undigested list only worked if the latter contained
	       the letter 'y'
	    Recognize still more queue warning messages
	    Ignore "Data format", 8-bit conversion, and size errors -- the
	       address is fine, the particular message is presumably at fault
	    Use four digit digest volume numbers starting in the year 2000
	    Setting archive_hist to "all" causes the archive to never be
	       truncated
	    Changes to multigram:
	       - ignore words that start with an '@' unless they look like
		 a route address
	    Reject attempts to subscribe someone twice with an X-Command mail
	    Recognize DSNs and enable some primitive parsing of them
	    Mention online FAQ in SmartList Manual
2000/09/03: v3.15
	    Let the location of the "latest" archive be set from rc.custom
	    Add List-Help: and List-Post: header fields with mailto: URLs for
	       the request address and correct format of other List-* header
	       fields
	    "Wrong address" archive retrieval warnings could end up in the
	       header
	    Send submitted messages to maintainer if moderators file is
	       needed but missing
	    Only add List-Subscribe: and List-Unsubscribe: header fields if
	       auto_subscibe and auto_unsubscribe, respectively, are enabled
	    Clarify the error message when a list cannot be created
	    When forwarding a message from a digest list to its corresponding
	       undigested list, remove any Delivered-To: header field
	       containing the name of the digested list, thus allowing the
	       message forwarded back to go out.
	    Changes to multigram:
	       - prevent attempts to exercise a Linux kernel security hole