[comp.mail.misc] need mailing-list software

gst@gnosys.gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) (10/05/89)

It was suggested that someone reading this newsgroup might be able to
offer a suggestion on how to maintain a mailing list.  I am running a
rather vanilla kind of system with respect to mail, though I do use
ELM as my user interface.  I have access to sendmail, though I have
not had the motivation to install it as of yet (I'm running an AT&T
3B1), but will do so if it will make it easier to get a mailing-list
going.

The idea is that I want to be able to allow users to send to a given
address on my machine, and have their messages be automatically broad-
cast to each address on a mailing list (which will be manually maintained).

I suppose I could send a similar inquiry to people who maintain mailing-
lists on the net, but I thought I'd try here first.

Thanks in advance!

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Gary S. Trujillo			      gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
Somerville, Massachusetts		      {wjh12,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst

edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) (10/08/89)

In article <394@gnosys.gnosys.svle.ma.us> gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:

>The idea is that I want to be able to allow users to send to a given
>address on my machine, and have their messages be automatically broad-
>cast to each address on a mailing list (which will be manually maintained).
>
>I suppose I could send a similar inquiry to people who maintain mailing-
>lists on the net, but I thought I'd try here first.

This sounds like an alias to me.  I use an alias to handle a mailing
list from my site at work.  In my case, I have the alias defined in
/usr/lib/mail/saliases (as I'm running smail 2.5 there), but a similar
file should/could exist on most systems in a similar directory.

There are of course more complex ways of doing this.

>Gary S. Trujillo			      gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us
>Somerville, Massachusetts		      {wjh12,spdcc,ima,cdp}!gnosys!gst

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