              CRON Programs for WebNotice System

These are the programs that do maintenance of the webnotice system.
The programs are:

cleanup.pl
  Cleanup should be run every evening at some fixed time. This program
  looks for expired events, and moves them out of hte notices database.
  They are archived in the Expired subdirectory, in subsubdirectories
  appropriate to the year and month of the event.

cleanup_old.pl
  The WebNotice 1.0 version of cleanup.

mail_week.pl
  This is the weekly mailing program, and should be run every sunday 
  afternoon. Mail_week.pl assembles a summary of all notices coming up
  in the next week that are supposed to be mailed to a particular list, 
  and mails this summary to the list.

notice_mailer.pl
  This is a daily mailing program, and should be run every day near
  midnight. This progrma looks for new or changed events that will take
  place before the next weekly mailing, and mails this notice to the
  relevant listservs (if any).

notice_poster.pl
  Curently non-functional, notice_poster.pl is the skeleton of a program to
  post notices to newsgroups.

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Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>
23/May/1996.


