On Sunday, Aug 24th 2003 at 15:12 -0500, quoth Mike Watson: =>On Sunday 24 August 2003 02:45 pm, Globe Trotter wrote: =>> Hi, =>> =>> I am the newsletter editor for a professional group which has about a =>> couple of thousand members. As the new newsletter comes out, I would =>> like to send e-mails to all these people telling them that it has =>> come out and been posted at the group's webpage. Last time, I had to =>> send out ten different e-mails (because of Unix limitations of no =>> more than 220 addresses or something like that), and all Bcc'ed (so =>> that the other members would not get hold of the other addresses). =>> Bcc'ing is not a great idea because of the monster called MS Trash =>> (it automatically puts stuff in spam) so I suspect that some people =>> never got the message, but more importantly, I was wondering if there =>> was a way out of sending 20 or so e-mails. How does one set up a =>> mailing list with the addresses in them, and such that no one else =>> can either get hold of the addresses (not reproduced in the e-mail) =>> or mail to the list (other than me)? Is this possible? =>> =>> Thanks and best wishes! => =>Check out Mailman. It comes with RH and it's easy to setup. => =>Mike W I'd really like to recommend that you not look at Mailman simply because I've already done a fairly exhaustive analysis of a lot of different mailinglist managers, and the one that's head and shoulders better is majordomo2 (not to be confused with majordomo). Get it from http://www.math.uh.edu/majordomo/ Yes I know it's not available as a tar file; you have to get it from CVS, but trust me. It's really stable and the functionality is far superior. I have my own stuff at steveo.syslang.net and I ran majordomo for years. I switched to majordomo2 and never looked back. This is a truly object oriented system that works *really* well and totally blows away the functionality of a Mailman (as well as majordomo). And the people who run the list to support it are the best and are also very responsive. When I have a question I get answers usually in minutes. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
