Received: from zonker-fddi.hpl.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA18707; Tue, 15 Nov 1994 02:36:28 -0800 Return-Path: <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Received: by zonker.hpl.hp.com (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA07643; Tue, 15 Nov 1994 02:36:17 -0800 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 02:36:17 -0800 From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <9411151036.AA07643@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: Setting up a mail group
> You just create aliases in /etc/aliases that cause certain actions when
> receiving Email. You can do the simple things like sending back incoming
> Email to all of the subscribers. You can also do the fancier stuff
> like allowing people to subscribe to multiple lists. I think the
> adminstrator of this alias does this by using some simple shell scripts.
> But you would have to ask him. You can also archive all Email going to
> a list. We do that here for our records.
This is what I started with for wind_*, too. It's a nice low-effort way
to get started, but maintaining the lists quickly got to be too much
work. I reckoned the threshold of pain at around 50 subscribers.
Ken Poulton
poulton@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
"Yes, we could do that. But it would be wrong."
-- Richard Nixon, on covering up Watergate
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