i've been taking some of the knowledge i've gained from the book
(which is wonderful) and starting to improve my configuration.
here is a simple demime trick which i set up with my majordomo lists.
normal demime setup is simply place it in a pipe in an alias file,
like so:
alfa: "|/tools/majordomo/demime - |/tools/majordomo/wrapper
resend -C /tools/majordomo/digest.cf -l
alfa -h digest.net -f owner-alfa alfa-out@???"