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
msir@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) (06/01/90)
In article <900531093625.30e0f102@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. This sounds like a bad idea. Electronic mail isn't a good broadcast medium; if there are lots of users on your destination machine then you're going to eat up GOBS of disk space with hundreds of copies of your message in everyone's mailbox. Is there perhaps an appropriate newsgroup you can post to, or does the machine have msgs(1), or something like that? Perhaps you should ask the system administrator of the destination machine what would be a good medium for your message. Someone here once mailed all the users on our local public system, which has over 800 users. We, the system administrators, were somewhat upset. There are much better ways of doing this sort of thing. -- Mark Sirota - University of Rochester Computing Center, Rochester NY Internet: msir@cc.rochester.edu Bitnet: msir@uordbv.bitnet UUCP: {decvax,harvard,ames,rutgers}!rochester!ur-cc!msir