thermal%solgel.hepnet@CSA2.LBL.GOV (05/31/90)
I apologize for my first posting, which did not quite exactly say what I wanted it to say. Below is the revised posting, which I believe now says what I wanted it to say. Read carefully. Thanks for your reply. ****************************************************************** I would like to be able to send a mail message to all the users on ANOTHER unix machine via Internet. Of course, I could do it the long and tedious way, that is, by sending a mail message to each user, one at a time. Is there a quicker way? (it seems to me there could be two or three different ways, such as setting up a mailing list file on my machine which will automatically mail the message to all on the list, or sending one message to the remote machine and somehow instruct it to distribute the message to all the users). Obviously, I'm not a unix guru or wizard, so make your explanation understandable, please. Thanks, Dana
merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (06/01/90)
L ines: 28 In-Reply-To: thermal%solgel.hepnet@CSA2.LBL.GOV In article <900531093335.30e0f102@Csa2.LBL.Gov>, thermal%solgel writes: | I would like to be able to send a mail message to all the users on | ANOTHER unix machine via Internet. Of course, I could do it the long | and tedious way, that is, by sending a mail message to each user, one | at a time. Is there a quicker way? (it seems to me there could be two | or three different ways, such as setting up a mailing list file on my | machine which will automatically mail the message to all on the list, | or sending one message to the remote machine and somehow instruct it | to distribute the message to all the users). Obviously, I'm not a | unix guru or wizard, so make your explanation understandable, please. Write postmaster@at.that.site. Tell him/her that you are looking for an alias that people that want general announcements are on. If he/she does not give one to you, then *DON'T* send mail to that site. It's *rude* to send a lot of unsolicited junk mail to a bunch of people just because they have an account on a system. When I want junk mail, I read it in bulk, via UseNet. :-) Kidding aside, why don't you just post your announcement in an *appropriate* news group? That's a lot of what Usenet was made for. Just another news admin, -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/
subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) (06/01/90)
In article <1990May31.171127.11615@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes: >In article <900531093335.30e0f102@Csa2.LBL.Gov>, thermal%solgel writes: >| I would like to be able to send a mail message to all the users on >| ANOTHER unix machine via Internet. Of course, I could do it the long >Write postmaster@at.that.site. Tell him/her that you are looking for >an alias that people that want general announcements are on. If Isn't mailing msgs@hostname the standard thing to do when you want all of the people on the site to see your message? -Kartik -- subbarao@{phoenix,bogey or gauguin}.Princeton.EDU -|Internet kartik@silvertone.Princeton.EDU (NeXT mail) -| subbarao@pucc.Princeton.EDU - Bitnet
Anselmo-Ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) (06/01/90)
>>>>> On 31 May 90 20:32:19 GMT, subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) said: >Write postmaster@at.that.site. Tell him/her that you are looking for >an alias that people that want general announcements are on. Kartik> Isn't mailing msgs@hostname the standard thing to do when you Kartik> want all of the people on the site to see your message? In a word -- No. Like the man said, ask the postmaster at the site for an alias suitable for general announcements. Better yet, ask if there's a mail alias that will be gatewayed into a local newsgroup. -- Ed Anselmo anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu {harvard,decvax}!yale!anselmo-ed
dankg@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) (06/04/90)
In article <900531093335.30e0f102@Csa2.LBL.Gov> thermal%solgel.hepnet@CSA2.LBL.GOV writes: > >I would like to be able to send a mail message to all the users on >ANOTHER unix machine via Internet. Of course, I could do it the long >and tedious way, that is, by sending a mail message to each user, one >at a time. Is there a quicker way? (it seems to me there could be two >or three different ways, such as setting up a mailing list file on my >machine which will automatically mail the message to all on the list, >or sending one message to the remote machine and somehow instruct it >to distribute the message to all the users). Obviously, I'm not a >unix guru or wizard, so make your explanation understandable, please. > In my last followup, I said "you'd better not do that" and that time I was assuming you just wanted to batchmail locally. Now you are asking for doing it remotely. I say "don't do it!" Batchmail in local site alone is anti-social enough. Batch-remote mail sounds as guily as a crime: It would end up with clogging network. One day I posted same article to another newsgroup (How secure is UNIX?) because I forgot to crosspost and got a dozen mails criticizing that. My mistake is nothing compared to what you are tring to do. And to make matters worse, it could be as easy as the case of local batchmailing: The only thing you need is list of address and there are many ways to do that: I don't think you can get remote list unless you have the remote account and read access to /etc/passwd or yp but still this can be resolved if you have a friend in remote site and have her/him mail the list to you. The only thing we can depend on net traffic is conscience of each users so far. I can't criticize you because I am not 100% innocent but the fact remains. Plus why do you need it? We already have netnews if you need to broadcast something. Please don't abuse e-mails. ---------------- ____ __ __ + Dan The "ex-con" Man ||__||__| + E-mail: dankg@ocf.berkeley.edu ____| ______ + Voice: +1 415-549-6111 | |__|__| + USnail: 1730 Laloma Berkeley, CA 94709 U.S.A |___ |__|__| + |____|____ + "What's the biggest U.S. export to Japan?" \_| | + "Bullshit. It makes the best fertilizer for their rice"