FAMATTHEWS@GALLUA.BITNET (Allen Matthews at Gallaudet Univ Washington DC) (06/04/88)
[03-Jun-1988]
I have been given a project to find a way to set up a local mailing
distribution for our VAX/VMS system. I am seeking the program that will act
like local LIST SERVERS where our users can sign up or sign off by themselves
without having human doing work of adding or deleting users. I will accept the
program that requires me to add or delete users manually.
Our problem is that we are trying to reduce heavy loads of incoming
mail through bitnet. For example, if 20 of users on our system are on
INFO-VAX list, and INFO-VAX send out 50 mail a day which means that our
system are receiving 1,000 incoming mails.
Please send info directly to me. I will post the information to the
INFO-VAX.
- Allen -
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Name: Allen Matthews
Supervisor, Computer Operation
USmail: Gallaudet University Computer Services
800 Florida Ave, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20002
Bitnet: FAMATTHEWS@GALLUA
INTERNET: FAMATTHEWS%GALLUA.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (VIA bitnet)
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Allen:
I use PMDF's alias facility for keeping track of local mailing lists.
For a while I tried using VMS's FORWARD facility, forwarding a dummy
username (IVAXLIST) to a file, but people wanted to be able to forward to
other machines, and down links caused problems. We are currently working
on an auto-subscription mechanism using DELIVER (a companion program to
PMDF) but have not made much progress yet.
There are also several news/bbs programs for VMS which would do
what you want (probably in a much more efficient fashion) but I do not
know anything about them besides the fact that they exist.
Mike Califf
Communications Programming Coordinator
Baylor University
CALIFFM@BAYLOR.BITNET