> Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-03 03:35]: > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:59:46PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > I want to setup a real basic mailing list for the users in my lab. > > There are only about 10 of us, so I would like to do something > > /etc/aliases. Is this possible? Do all the users need to have local > > accounts where the mail gets delivered? or can I just do something like > > this: > > > > list: billy, bob, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Will that even work? I don't want to go to the trouble of setting up a > > listserver, since there are so few of us and it will be infrequently used. > > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Why not set up a private news server. All the messages would stay in one > nice centralized place and you wouldn't have to send the messages all > over the place. And as a plus people could easily access the list from > home if they wanted to. > > And the best part is you wouldn't have to deal with the annoying things > that make usenet so bad. You woulnd't have messages disappearing all the > time. You could protect the server with a username and password so that > spammers could neither fill your groups with crap or harvest emails, > etc. > > P.S. I haven't set up a news server myself, but it seems like a good fit > for what you're trying to achieve.
I run several mailman (http://list.org) mailing list managers. Using Debian is no problem. The advantages are obvious: - nice interface (web & email) - archiving with web-interface - semi-automagic administration - easy to setup and run just my thoughts wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf | Wanna know anything about raw | <http://www.lpr.ch> | IP? <http://www.rawip.org> | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
